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.

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

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

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

Though I hope we get out more, the Arena looks fascinating and all this talk-talk-talk is making me itchy, and no one's tried to kill the captain yet!
Orphan gave a subdued buzz-chuckle. "One would almost think you want her to be attacked."
"Well, of course! What use being a bodyguard if you never actually get to do any WORK?"

A committee’s a good way to end up with a lot of talk and no action.

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.

“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.

Living creatures are essentially biological carbon-based nanotech.

Your problem, you pea-brained, overbearing, pompous crayfish, is that you think you have any idea of what you’re dealing with.

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

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.

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!

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

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.