183 quotes
Crime is an adaptive organism. Squeeze one niche and it moves into another.
On the Steel Breeze (2013)
In Clavain’s experience, it was the less comforting possibility that generally turned out to be the case. It was the way the universe worked.
Redemption Ark (2002)
The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)
And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.
Redemption Ark (2002)
It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
Revelation Space (2000)
Everything looked utterly normal, exactly as Thalia had expected save for the absence of a rampaging mob.
The Prefect (2007)
Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
Chasm City (2001)
Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.
Chasm City (2001)
Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.
Poseidon's Wake (2015)
The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.
Redemption Ark (2002)
Given the evidence at our disposal, only a fool would put any faith in the organic and the machine living harmoniously for the rest of time.
House of Suns (2008)
By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.
Chasm City (2001)
His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
Chasm City (2001)
It was a fault of the human condition—or perhaps a blessing—that there was no situation which did not eventually become the normal state of affairs.
Poseidon's Wake (2015)
Kanu closed his eyes, opened them again, hoping that the world would have done the decent thing and changed into a less problematic version of itself.
Poseidon's Wake (2015)
Pretty smart piece of thinkware by all accounts: full Turing compliance; about as clever as you can make a machine before you have to start giving it human rights.
Galactic North (2006)
As always, it was necessary to strike a balance between a cavalier disregard for the rules and a professional understanding that some rules were more flexible than others.
Century Rain (2004)
I had never understood mathematics with any great agility, but now I sensed it as a hard grid of truth underlying everything: bones shining through the thin flesh of the world.
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)
This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.
Redemption Ark (2002)