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The Fractal Prince

Hannu Rajaniemi

Top 10 Best Quotes

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”

“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.”

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

“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.”

“«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.”

“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.”

“There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.”

“Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.”

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”

“The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.”

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Book Keywords:

enlightenment, voice, ominous, identity, immortality, chess, life-lessons, butterflies, tautology, pattern-recognition

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