Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes

Hell,' I tell her, 'is where all the interesting people are.

I don't care what your Oort woman wants you to steal for her," she says. "You already did your worst. You stole what could have been. From me and from yourself. And you can never have it back.

The Universe is a quantum computer, and over time, it is simply more likely that structure comes out of it than noise. That means rules, patterns. That means a game. But spend long enough poking at it, and you start to see the game engine, the labyrinth of the quantum circuit, wires looping around each other, forwards and backwards.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject.

There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then

We have received a communication from Jean le Flambeur. He claims that in precisely 57 minutes, he is going to steal a ring of Saturn.

In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.

I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.

Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue.

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one's wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.

Alone on the timeless beach, Josephine Pellegrini finds herself disappointed by the end of the world.

The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A

The thief sighs. 'Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger.

There is no greater love than a maker's for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.

«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.