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1 " They were famous for having bad tempers, but then again, if you sprang into existence to discover that your Creators were human assholes, you’d be pissed off, too. "
― Matthew Mather , The Dystopia Chronicles (Atopia, #2)
2 " The separation between the cyber and the physical worlds was disappearing. Cyberbullying was just bullying, and cyberwar was just war - the true age of cyber began when we started removing it as a descriptor. "
― Matthew Mather , CyberStorm (Cyberstorm, #1)
3 " Technology couldn't revert, but humans could, and they did with startling ease and rapidity when the trappings of the modern world melted away. The tribal animal was always there, hiding just beneath our thin skins of lattes and cell phones and cable TV. "
4 " We only see two things in people, Jake’s dad used to say. What we want to see, and what they show us. Neither was the truth, and "
― Matthew Mather , Darknet
5 " If you don’t pay for a product, then you are the product. "
6 " Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom. You know why they don’t just fingerprint everyone? "
7 " Without artificial light, humans were scared animals that scurried into their nests at sunset. Darkness brought out the monsters that existed in our primal collective imaginations, the creatures from under the bed, all of which disappeared with the flick of a switch and the warm glow of an incandescent bulb. Modern cities were filled with massive and awe-inspiring structures, but without artificial light, "
8 " Technology couldn’t revert, but humans could, and they did so with startling ease and swiftness when the trappings of the modern world melted away. "
9 " Any technology that was sufficiently advanced seemed like magic to someone unfamiliar, "
― Matthew Mather , The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia, #1)
10 " We only see two things in people, Jake’s dad used to say. What we want to see, and what they show us. Neither was the truth, "
11 " Do people really want to make the world a better place?” I asked. “Or do they just want to make a better place for themselves within it? Almost everything humans do is self-serving in the end. "
12 " Sometimes I guess you really did have to lose yourself to find yourself. "
13 " The criminals force society to improve. They weed out the weak, making us strengthen our institutions and networks. "
14 " The man with no future, who existed only in the moment, was invisible to a world fixated on anywhere but where they actually were. "
15 " 1910 there were more electric-powered cars on the streets of New York than gas-powered ones, and everyone back then assumed that electric cars were the future—they made a lot more sense than the crazy engines that ran on controlled explosions of volatile, toxic chemicals. But Rockefeller funded Ford to make sure that gas-powered cars, not electric, would be the way of the future, so he would have a place to sell his oil.” “I "
16 " For thirty or forty years, through middle age, they would look almost exactly the same, and then all of a sudden the decades would pile on in months. "
17 " She sighed and pushed herself back into me. “Mike, I’m so proud of you.” In one motion, she swiveled around in the tub and kissed me wetly. “I love you.” Reaching down, I gripped her buttocks and pulled her up onto me. I was aroused, and she smiled, biting my lip. Just then there was a loud rap on the door. "
18 " For just a moment I allowed myself the pleasure of watching her naked, wet body climb out of the tub. "
19 " Nothing more than a simple panic attack.” The doctor’s bald pate reflected the overhead panel lighting like a shimmering, sweaty halo above his radiantly clean lab coat. A stethoscope hung uselessly around his neck. He leaned forward over his desk and clasped his hands, bringing them up to support his chin in what I assumed was his thoughtful pose. “Are you still smoking? "
20 " Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom. "
