7 Quotes & Sayings By Pat Cadigan

Pat Cadigan is the author of the cyberpunk classic Synners and three books of short stories: Telefantasy, which won the Nebula Award; The Girl Who Was Plugged In; and The Machine's Boy. She has written for television, comics, roleplaying games, and video games. Her fiction has been collected in The New York Times best-selling anthology Push/Pull: Eleven Tales of X-Rated Fiction (edited by Neil Gaiman). Her short stories have been featured in many volumes, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (2007), Best British Crime (2008), After Dark (2009), Evil Things (2010), Dangerous Women (2011), 100 Amazing Women (2011) Read more

She lives in California.

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The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more. Pat Cadigan
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The theorem of incompleteness .. . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence. Pat Cadigan
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[Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.[Mark] What does ‘c-word’ mean?[ Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don’t feel it. Not letting go even when you can’t find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end. Pat Cadigan
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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. Pat Cadigan
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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. Pat Cadigan
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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. Pat Cadigan