Nick Harkaway Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
1972

Nick Harkaway is a British novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, and Gnomon; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World.

Also known as Commentator

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Nick Harkaway
- Heaven
- Hell
- Mimes
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.

Nick Harkaway

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

Nick Harkaway
- Technology
- Magic
- Senses
If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

Nick Harkaway
- Exist
- Here
- Where
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Nick Harkaway
- Law
- Know
- Error
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Nick Harkaway
- Tree
- Disaster
- Error
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.

Nick Harkaway
- Photography
- Mercy
- Lie
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Nick Harkaway
- Children
- Bored
- Dogmatic

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

Nick Harkaway
- Society
- Action
- Support
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.

Nick Harkaway