Pushing Ice Quotes

“Cowards were exactly the kind of people you wanted around nuclear technology.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

“It is always better to try and fail than not to try.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

“there are only so many sieverts you can soak up in a lifetime.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

“Somewhere around 2136, various lines of development had collided. What had once been servile Borderline Intelligences had jumped the tracks into genuine sentience. The luminously clever engines of Transgressive intelligence had been much too clever, much too willing to oblige. In an instant, humanity had found itself in possession of tools powerful enough to remake entire worlds, but equally capable of shattering them to dust.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

“organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe”
― Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

“She loved sarcasm, especially from engineers.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice