Billion Dollar Brain Quotes

“You must imagine,
English, that there are two mighty armies advancing towards each other across a vast
desolate place. They have no orders, nor does either suspect that the other is there. You
understand how armies move: one man a long way out in front has a pair of binoculars, a
sub-machine-gun and a radiation counter. Behind him comes the armour and I hen the
motors and the medicine-men and finally dentists and the generals and the caviare. So the
very first fingertips of those armies will be two, not very clever, men who when they
meet will have to decide, very quickly, whether to extend a hand or pull a trigger.
According to what they do, either the armies will that night share an encampment,
exchange stories and vodka, dance and tell lies; or those armies will be tearing each other
to shreds in the most efficient way that man can devise. We are the fingertips,”
― Len Deighton, Billion Dollar Brain

“Boy-wonder karate expert, I thought, and I hoped that my sister would get the hi-fi and the record collection; some of the Goodman discs were valuable.”
― Len Deighton, Billion Dollar Brain

“Pike began writing.”
― Len Deighton, Billion-Dollar Brain

“I said to Harriman, ‘I insist upon being allowed to write out my statement now.”
― Len Deighton, Billion-Dollar Brain