Nick Harkaway Quotes
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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
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If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
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Photography is without mercy - though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
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Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
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Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
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It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.