Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.”
“All communication is manipulation,” Jedao said. “You’re a mathematician. You should know that from information theory.”
“But then, war is about taking the future away from people.”
“The silence could have swallowed a star.”
“The point of war is to rig the deck, drug the opponent, and threaten to kneecap their family if they don't fold.”
“According to the Shuos," Jedao said, "games are about behavior modification. The rules constrain some behaviors and reward others. Of course, people cheat, and there are consequences around that, too, so implicit rules and social context are just as important. Meaningless cards, tokens, and symbols become invested with value and significance in the world of the game. In a sense, all calendrical war is a game between competing sets of rules, fueled by the coherence of our beliefs. To win a calendrical war, you have to understand how game systems work.”
“Remember that despite the fact that I'm a traitor and mass murderer, one of us is expendable, and it isn't me.”
“Taking away people's names denied their power, a lesson Cheris tried not to think about.”
“I wish I knew I was doing this right," Cheris said, "but there's nothing to it but to move forward." "The only unforgivable sin in war is standing still," Jedao said. "It's better to be doing the wrong thing wholeheartedly than freeze.”
“The universe ran on death. All the clockwork wonders in the world couldn’t halt entropy. You could work with death or you could let it happen; that was all.”
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Book Keywords:
authority-and-attitude, war, destiny
