Alastair Reynolds quotes - page 8

Is there anyone or anything in this city which can't be bought?” I said, slipping him a note.
"Yeah,” the man said, laughing quietly. "But I'm not it. (Alastair Reynolds)

The central defect of the human mind,” Custine said, "is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.” "But sometimes a very dangerous one.

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Is that as bad as it sounds?” Floyd asked. "No,” Auger said. "It's worse. A lot worse.

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I'm just saying...we can't trust them. We've never been able to trust them. That's always been a cornerstone of our operational policy.” "Then maybe it's time we got a new cornerstone. They're people, Lillian. They might be people who make us uncomfortable, people with very different values from ours, but when we're facing local extinction at the hands of a genocidal machine intelligence, I don't think the differences between us look massively significant, do you?

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Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

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I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

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As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

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Can I still wish you good luck?

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How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren't the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?

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That's how it went, wasn't it Zebra?

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Haven't you ever heard of morale-building? (Alastair Reynolds)

How long have we been friends, Dan?

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All right, Marius-I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?

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Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?

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Do you think it means anything?

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And you do not think that this is possible?

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I have only your word for that.

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There's still hope.

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Even godlike aliens have to act rationally-don't they?

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The question is: do you trust me? Sometimes.

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The old murals came from the heart,” Zima said. "I painted on a huge scale because that was what the subject matter seemed to demand. (Alastair Reynolds)

Could be worse, as they say.

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I can't tell you how much happier I'd be meeting a bunch of artificial intelligences if I also happened to have one on my side.

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I worry that it's me they're really after.

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Imagine a permanent, shivering gloom, and never a moment without hunger, thirst and exhaustion. Imagine the constant fear of suffering illness or injury.

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