The Fractal Prince Quotes

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“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 Fractal Prince

“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 Fractal Prince

“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, The Fractal Prince

“«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“To help my all-too-human senses and brain, they translate the problem into yosegi: opening a Japanese trick box. The quantum protocols are sensations, imperfections and valleys in the marquetry, pressure points inside the wood like tense muscles, faint grins of sliding sections. I need to find the right sequence that opens it.

Except that here, the trick is not opening it too early, the wood patterns are hidden in the countless qubits inside – each zero and one at the same time – and the moves are quantum logic operations, executed by the arrays of lasers and interferometers the gogols have built in the ship’s wings. It all amounts to what the ancients called quantum process tomography: trying to figure out what the Box does to the probe states we ease into it, gently, like lockpicks. It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik’s cubes while trying to solve them at the same time.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“The problem with central planning is that you always end up getting out of sync with it, and there are alternative ways to get things done. I”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“The desert of the mutalibun is not our desert. Ours is full of life, rivers of thought and forests of memory, castles made of stories and dreams. Our desert is not a desert.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“True stories do not always end,’ Sumanguru”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince

“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, The Fractal Prince

“You found the memories. But there was another you who tried to take them. So you trapped him in a prison, and only got out with a box with a god in it. And a memory that said that you needed to go to Earth.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Fractal Prince