Deep Navigation Quotes

“First rule of complex systems,” I said. “You can’t tell friends from enemies.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Deep Navigation

“has a control system so perilously close to intelligence that a government agent must be on hand at all times, ready to destroy the machine if it slips over the threshold into consciousness.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Deep Navigation

“The games enthralled the public and diverted their attentions from the Halo wars. And—unlike the arts—they could not be used as vehicles for subversion. For gamers like myself it was a near-utopian state of affairs. We were pampered and courted by the houses and made immensely rich.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Deep Navigation