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Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2) QUOTES

Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2) QUOTES

1 " The aftereffects of confiding something you shouldn't have, almost as bad as a hangover. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

2 " You’ll get used to it,” he says. “In any case, I find it interesting that you think of this as the past.”
“What do you mean?”
Suleyman gestures, drawing her gaze over the shacks of organic material, the sand-and-scrub wasteland, the distant evaporation plant, the images painted on brick that provide intel and entertainment. “This could just as easily be the future. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

3 " Privacy is part of autonomy. Deciding what is reported and how much you spend on reporting it is part of governing. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

4 " Voters lose interest, growing either complacent or frustrated. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

5 " This is a micro-democracy, not a representative dictatorship. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

6 " The problem with feeds, beyond all the obvious problems, I mean, is that they give us the illusion of a perfect truth, incontrovertible evidence, a flat, singular version of history. They are too easy to rely on, to believe in." She lightens her words with a smile and a half-shrug. "I practice sustaining my disbelief in objective, documentable truth. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

7 " social capital pyramid scheme "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

8 " She’s still thinking in diplo-speak, though, and asks a question rather than answering directly. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

9 " but for the most part, refugees are recognized as a good bargain. Treat them well, and they will vote for you more loyally than citizens who were born in your centenal. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)

10 " Sure, but…” Roz thinks about everything she uses Information for, all the time. “If you’re driving, and you come to an intersection, how do you know what vehicles might be approaching from either side?”
“Well, we try not to design blind intersections,” Maria says. “And we use mirrors.”
Mirrors! Ingenious. “You must have found it much easier than we did when Information went out during the elections,” Roz says, trying to offer Maria’s odd cult some credit. "

― Malka Ann Older , Null States (The Centenal Cycle, #2)