Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkawayis a novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
sorry love-you forever
I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
swings errors tree
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
phones people parent
Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.
photography lying cat
Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
heaven hell mime
I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
philosopher language habit
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
secret desire democracy
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.
one-day remarkable ifs
If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
technology magic threshold
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
space people maps
I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.
tupperware
That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.
scary stories path
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.
silly flower ninja
Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
media cities worry
We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.