32 quotes
Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
River of Gods (2006)
His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.
River of Gods (2006)
It is an easy, and terrible, mistake to make, to think your will is God’s will.
Winning (1990)
I do not trust the memory. Imaginings too easily become memories, memories imaginings.
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan (2015)
He has no belief—faith is beneath his dignity—but he enjoys the designed madness of religion.
The Dervish House (2010)
The elephants fight but the rats go about their business.
River of Gods (2006)
At some point it will inevitably crash again: as weapons of mass destruction go, unrestricted market economies are among the more subtle but sure.
The Dervish House (2010)
Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.
The Dervish House (2010)
Half your DNA's owned by some biotech corporation. Every time you have sex, you break copyright.
River of Gods (2006)
"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."
River of Gods (2006)
Once muddying subjectivities are removed from the issue, the decision becomes clear.
Desolation Road (1988)
These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday.
Desolation Road (1988)
Truth is a very difficult concept, many faceted.
I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty
River of Gods (2006)
Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.
The Dervish House (2010)
The laws of economics are subject to the laws of physics. The physical processes that govern this planet and the continued life upon it place as stringent an upper limit on economic growth as the speed of light does on our knowledge of the universe.
River of Gods (2006)
That old saw about a problem shared being a problem halved? Damnable lie. A problem shared is a problem doubled.
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan (2015)
It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.
Desolation Road (1988)
She had trapped the bird of salvation, sung to it, tamed it and wrung its neck.
Desolation Road (1988)
Nationalism, then Islamism, both twentieth-century inventions, destroyed the Greek civilization in Egypt that had endured for three thousand years.
The Dervish House (2010)