Quotes
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- "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor."
- Anathem pg 320.
- "Can you even have an Ark, if you're not sure you're right? Isn't it just a social club, in that case?"
- Anathem pg 883.
- "So I looked with fascination at those people in their mobes, and tried to fathom what it would be like. Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them."
- Anathem pg 414.
- "I spent the entire journey to orbit convinced that the rocket had failed and this was what dying was. The designers hadn't had time or budget to put in fripperies like windows, or even speely feeds: just a fairing, a thin outer shell whose functions were to shield the monyafeek from wind-blast; to block out all light, ensuring we'd make the trip in absolute darkness and ignorance; and to vibrate. The latter two functions combined to maximize the terror."
- Anathem pg 755.
- "Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways."
- Anathem pg. 109.
- I f I disturbed him just so that I could fetch my shoes, he would turn me into a newt or something
- Anathem pg 313
- "Shut up," Fraa Jad
- pg 313
