Hannu Rajaniemi Quotes & Sayings

In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs. — Hannu Rajaniemi

I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing. — Hannu Rajaniemi

A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one's wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull. — Hannu Rajaniemi

Alone on the timeless beach, Josephine Pellegrini finds herself disappointed by the end of the world. — Hannu Rajaniemi

Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject. — Hannu Rajaniemi

Whisky has always tasted like introspection to me, a quiet moment after taking a sip, the lingering aftertaste, inviting you to ponder upon the flavours on your tongue. — Hannu Rajaniemi

The thief sighs. 'Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger. — Hannu Rajaniemi

there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A — Hannu Rajaniemi

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones. — Hannu Rajaniemi

The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random. — Hannu Rajaniemi

It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik's cubes while trying to solve them at the same time. And every time I drop one, God kills a billion kittens. — Hannu Rajaniemi

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. — Hannu Rajaniemi

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands. — Hannu Rajaniemi

There is no greater love than a maker's for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined. — Hannu Rajaniemi

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics. — Hannu Rajaniemi

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. — Hannu Rajaniemi

The Universe is a quantum computer, and over time, it is simply more likely that structure comes out of it than noise. That means rules, patterns. That means a game. But spend long enough poking at it, and you start to see the game engine, the labyrinth of the quantum circuit, wires looping around each other, forwards and backwards. — Hannu Rajaniemi

We have received a communication from Jean le Flambeur. He claims that in precisely 57 minutes, he is going to steal a ring of Saturn. — Hannu Rajaniemi

I don't care what your Oort woman wants you to steal for her," she says. "You already did your worst. You stole what could have been. From me and from yourself. And you can never have it back. — Hannu Rajaniemi

I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters. — Hannu Rajaniemi

There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then — Hannu Rajaniemi

Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust. — Hannu Rajaniemi