Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae "Ken" MacLeodis a Scottish science fiction writer...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 August 1954
thinking southern way
Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.
real engineering ideas
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
both emergency police services talk towards
We've been working towards this for a long time, both provincially and nationally, so that emergency services such as police can talk with the RCMP and other emergency services. The way it was before, we were isolated,
lying father believe
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
mind problem changing-your-mind
Change the problem by changing your mind.
country kings children
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.