"The sky above the port was the color of television
tuned to a dead channel."
Opening line, Neuromancer
"War is
peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Ingsoc slogan, Nineteen
Eigthy-Four
"If you're not a cop,
you're little people."
Captain Bryant,
Blade Runner
"Christianity without tears ―
that's what soma is."
Mustapha
Mond,
Brave New World
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." Satan,
Paradise Lost
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means
to create super-human intelligence. Shortly after, the human era
will be ended."
Vernor Vinge,
The Singularity
"Whoever
fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss
also looks into you."
Friedrich
Nietzsche,
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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