“The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“Suokaa anteeksi, mutta minun on nyt mentävä, jotta ehdin irstailla kyllikseni ennen kuin kuolen.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“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, quote from The Quantum Thief
“Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“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, quote from The Quantum Thief
“I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“What is it about it, anyway? Stealing.’ ‘It’s …’ It’s an instinct, I want to say. ... It’s art. But she would not understand, so I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“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, quote from The Quantum Thief
“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, quote from The Quantum Thief
“Hell,’ I tell her, ‘is where all the interesting people are.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“Tell me one thing,’ Isidore says. ‘What was this place before?’ The Eldest pauses. An expression of sadness flickers across her serene face.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“How do you find out if there are shadowy forces manipulating people’s minds? You find a clean template, and make a before-and-after comparison.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“I don’t understand people. I need to deduce things. I don’t know why anyone says or does anything if I don’t think about it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“The carriage lurches back and forth as the vehicle – the bastard child of a spider, a H. G. Wells war machine and a taxi – leaps over rooftops and clings to walls.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“She smiles, displaying an uneven row of sugar cube teeth.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
“You are a policeman, yes? A sysadmin?”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Quantum Thief
Hannu Rajaniemi
Born place: in Ylivieska, Finland
Born date March 9, 1978
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“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.”
― Herman Melville, quote from Moby-Dick
“Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process.”
― Matthew Desmond, quote from Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“7 We have •redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace”
― quote from HCSB: Holman Christian Standard Bible
“My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?”
― Donald J. Trump, quote from Trump: The Art of the Deal
“By weaving their thoughts and feelings into the substance of reality, the Weavers had ensured anyone writing about them would secure an instant bestseller – which wasn’t particularly difficult, considering the Weavers held the strings on the one holding the pen.
Those who controlled the Pattern, controlled reality.”
― Louise Blackwick, quote from The Weaver of Odds
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