On the Steel Breeze
Alastair Reynolds
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.”
“Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That’s the way of it.”
“So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out there? If we can’t even accept a robot and some talking elephants, what good are we going to be when we meet something really strange?”
“I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes.”
“Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.”
“Everything depends on everything else, doesn’t it? That’s interconnectivity for you – it’s a bitch.”
“Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.”
“Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called the last stable orbit. Once you drop below that radius, no force in the universe can stop you falling all the way in. That’s what happened to your mother – she swam too close to theory, fell below the last stable orbit.”
“I am Chiku Akinya. I am the daughter of Sunday Akinya; I am the grand-daughter of Eunice Akinya – Senge Dongma, the lion-faced one, mother of us all...”
“Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, dust, strange, meddling, interconnectivity, system, senge-dongma, risk, mathematics
