The Causal Angel Quotes

“I should have let my other self tell me his plan. Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“You grip the katana lightly, like a calligrapher’s brush, and prepare to write a haiku of death.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“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, The Causal Angel

“It generates a gravitational disturbance that makes our spacetime emit a brane into the higher dimensions of the bulk. It bounces off the Planck brane and collides with ours again.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“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, The Causal Angel

“hitting it with a metal stick – I know, really tacky, don’t ask. If the goal was the point, you’d just walk it to the hole and drop it in. But it wouldn’t be as much fun.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“For in the end, there is always a way out.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“All the uncertainty is gone. I feel like myself again. I lose myself in the plan. I’m going to need tools. A quantum pyramid scheme. A pair of physical bodies, a nugget of computronium, a bunch of entangled EPR pairs and a few very special hydrogen bombs …”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“A wave is travelling across the adamantine vastness. Where it passes, only a smooth, featureless surface remains, an endless, shining plain, a nothingness. The constant neutrino roar of the guberniya is silent, suddenly.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“like for every imaginable quantifiable resource, there is a zoku devoted to gamifying it. But”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“If there is ever a time to do forbidden things, it’s at the end of the world!’   It”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“Mental note: never interrupt a villain who is monologuing. I”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“You can’t run away forever. You can’t help what you are. You will come back to me.  ”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“The city does not read the fine print. It’s hard – NP-hard, to be precise – when verifying the contract structure is computationally intractable within the lifetime of the Universe. Earth’s”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“Causality. It’s a lens through which we see things. An ordering of events. In a quantum spacetime, it is not unique. It’s just one story among many.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“Alone on the timeless beach, Josephine Pellegrini finds herself disappointed by the end of the world.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Causal Angel

“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 Causal Angel