Rajaniemi's Quotes

#1. This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted ... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

Amal El-Mohtar

#2. Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.

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

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

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

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#6. 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.

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

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

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

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#10. Artistes breathe and dream creativity!

Avijeet Das

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

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik's cubes while trying to solve them at the same time. And every time I drop one, God kills a billion kittens.

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

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science ... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.

Charles Beaumont

#21. It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Agnes Repplier

#22. No. I'm waiting because it's not enough. What's on the other side of the waiting is enough.

Mary Ann Rivers

#23. 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.

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

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#25. 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

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#26. 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.

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#27. I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.

F Scott Fitzgerald