Ryk E. Spoor Quotes

But you know there’s always that nagging set of voices out there worried that someone is doing something bad with that freedom—and of course the problem is, sometimes they’re right.

But there has to be an alternative.
"Why does there have to be one, Captain Austin?" Sethrik asked quietly. "Often the universe does not give us choices."

I am a scientist. I do not believe in gods or demons.

“I’m sure you’ll figure out how to make a system of simple laws that work.”
“Yes, right after the perpetual motion machine I’m patenting,” he said cheerfully.

Maybe you should’ve been more careful, but hindsight’s perfect and we aren’t.

It almost sounds romantic, in a facing-execution-together sort of way.

In safety and in security, in peril and plague, in victory and vengeance, may your course be ever your own.

So," Simon said slowly, looking around at the others, "the Leader of Humanity is going to risk herself on a ship with a sometimes devious ally, traveling to some secret destination in the Deeps of the Arena, to confront some nameless force where there won't even be a Sky Gate to help us return if things go wrong?
He stood and lifted his glass. "Sign me up, Captain!

If you’re a sensible man, you get in the habit of being very cautious of making extreme pronouncements when one’s in the sciences, especially when it’s not your core field.

I will admit that I have not heard that he would directly violate his word or go back on a bargain, though he is certainly more than capable of obfuscation and creative interpretation where it suits him.

Hmph. Just remembered that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent—
Yeah, Duquesne interrupted with a grin, because the competent resort to violence MUCH sooner, before it’s too late!

Well, like many fanatic creeds, if you accept the basic postulates, you can make a twisted sense out of anything.

His hand contracted on the odd carven rod, a tiny thing that glittered with hints of lights and circuits and, at the same time, bone and gems, a wand constructed by an engineer, or a transmitter assembled by a shaman.

Living creatures are essentially biological carbon-based nanotech.

When people can have pretty much whatever they want for the asking, and when privacy and security can be assured by the same technologies...well, pretty soon no one needs a government for much.