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Quotes from Against Infinity — Gregory Benford

born 1941 United States

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Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

Against Infinity (1983)

Man doesn’t have to take a gamble just ’cause it’s there. You got to learn that.

Against Infinity (1983)

“There’s plenty—”
“Plenty is exactly what there’s none of.”

Against Infinity (1983)

“You’ll never get it to follow orders.”
“Slaves follow orders, Colonel. You want something done a slave can’t, you don’t ask for a slave to do it.”

Against Infinity (1983)

Major Sánchez grunted. “Nice word, ‘trivial.’ Means you got it—cojones—you got no worry. If you don’t—”

Against Infinity (1983)

Once introduced into this world, life would never leave—there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

Against Infinity (1983)

Soldiers for equality, uh? Glad you warned me. I’d have thought you were just thieves.

Against Infinity (1983)

Manuel stared at the place where Piet had been. The man he had known so little would now lie in this place far beyond the moon of Islam and the cross of Rome and the hammer of Marx, in a territory open and without plan, beyond man and his encasing theories, his filters, beyond the closed rooms of the civilized mind.

Against Infinity (1983)

You got to learn to wait people out. Hear what they got to say. Not enough to have a majority rule, y’know. Otherwise, the minority won’t be convinced and they won’t support the plan. No point havin’ people at your elbow who’re against what you’re doin’. So we just got to talk it out Quaker-style till ever’body agrees. More efficient in the long run.

Against Infinity (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gregory Benford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.