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Top 20 Ken MacLeod Quotes (2025 Update)

Ken MacLeod Quote: “The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.”

1. “The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?”

2. “What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.”

3. “I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.”

4. “Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?”

5. “All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Change the problem by changing your mind.”

6. “Change the problem by changing your mind.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.”

7. “The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”

9. “Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “There’s a part of the human brain, the temporal lobe, that is associated with religious experiences as well as with epilepsy.”

10. “There’s a part of the human brain, the temporal lobe, that is associated with religious experiences as well as with epilepsy.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “I’m a long-term optimist, and I don’t think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.”

11. “I’m a long-term optimist, and I don’t think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “I enjoyed Old Man’s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don’t live in already.”

12. “I enjoyed Old Man’s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don’t live in already.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Whatever the truth about the Deliverer, she will remain in my mind as she was shown on that statue, and all the other statues and murals, songs and stories: riding, at the head of her own swift cavalry, with a growing migration behind her and a decadent, vulnerable, defenceless and rich continent ahead; and, floating bravely above her head and above her army, the black flag on which nothing is written.”

13. “Whatever the truth about the Deliverer, she will remain in my mind as she was shown on that statue, and all the other statues and murals, songs and stories: riding, at the head of her own swift cavalry, with a growing migration behind her and a decadent, vulnerable, defenceless and rich continent ahead; and, floating bravely above her head and above her army, the black flag on which nothing is written.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “For we have seen the future – we have by now centuries of experience of the future – and we know it doesn’t work.”

14. “For we have seen the future – we have by now centuries of experience of the future – and we know it doesn’t work.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they’re the Warren Commission.”

15. “The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they’re the Warren Commission.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.”

16. “For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Shooting arrows at the iron horses of Manifest Destiny.”

17. “Shooting arrows at the iron horses of Manifest Destiny.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Intellectually he understood perfectly what the problem was: guilt and doubt, the waste products of innocence and faith, inhibited him and filled him with self-loathing even at his own weakness in trying to be free of them.”

18. “Intellectually he understood perfectly what the problem was: guilt and doubt, the waste products of innocence and faith, inhibited him and filled him with self-loathing even at his own weakness in trying to be free of them.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.”

19. “Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “It’s elementary chaos theory, or to give it its popular designation – Murphy’s Law. Random changes happen all the time. Mistakes accumulate. Correcting them brings further changes. As someone smarter than me once said, evolution is smarter than you.”

20. “It’s elementary chaos theory, or to give it its popular designation – Murphy’s Law. Random changes happen all the time. Mistakes accumulate. Correcting them brings further changes. As someone smarter than me once said, evolution is smarter than you.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “Orgel’s rule – “Evolution is smarter than you.”

21. “Orgel’s rule – “Evolution is smarter than you.”

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Ken MacLeod Quote: “As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.”

22. “As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.”

— Ken MacLeod

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