Pat Cadigan

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.

[Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.[Mark] What does __-word_ mean?[Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don__ feel it. Not letting go even when you can__ find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.

the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.