The Dark Side Quotes

“See El Dorado. Take El Dorado. Find another El Dorado. The envy of others is a self-replenishing feast. A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay. Never bang your head against a wall. Bang someone else’s. Don’t break the law. Break the Law. Losers make hurdles. Winners hurdle them.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“The less you know, the better you sleep.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“But inevitably, armed with a complimentary map—no GPS devices are permitted on Farside—you’ll want to explore the city. If you still haven’t gotten your moonlegs you might elect to hire a motorized scooter or to strap on some hydraulic walk-assist devices. You’ll be relieved to discover, in any case, that most of the tourist districts have heavily padded surfaces, and that the windows, should you fall against them, are made of lunar glass—the most unbreakable glass in existence.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“The complete document—“ Letter from Farside”—is explosive, incoherent, and riddled with factual inaccuracies and highly questionable readings of history. It’s also 3,600 pages long.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“A mad scientist builds a monster out of body parts. The monster heads into the woods and kills a little girl. Who, then, is most responsible? The mad scientist or the monster?"
"The answer to that question is obvious, sir."
"It is?"
"Of course, sir - it's neither the scientist nor the monster."
"Then who is the most responsible?"
"The little girl in the woods."
"The little girl in the woods?"
"For failing to adequately protect herself, sir.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“inasmuch as a dead rock wants anything—it wants you dead too. So you can go quickly. A landslide can bury you. A lava tube can collapse on you. You can plunge headlong into a crater. A meteoroid can strike your habitat at seventy thousand kilometers per hour. A micrometeorite can bust open your spacesuit. A sudden burst of static electricity can blow”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“Dijkstra tries to raise his hands, but the wrench comes crashing down on his head. Crack. Crack. The droid is relentless. Crack. Dijkstra sees his own blood in his eyes. Crack. He falls to the floor. Crack. Crack. The droid is smashing his head in. Crack. Crack.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“Dijkstra almost laughs: The droid sounds offended—or eager to be offended. So he just says, “Well, I guess we’re all rivals in the end, aren’t we? Competition makes the world go ’round.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN to Nearside you’ll certainly know of the Overview Effect— there are whole towers, observation decks and hotels named after it. The Overview Effect is what happens when a human being surveys Earth from a sizable distance out in space. The Apollo astronauts were the first to feel the full force of it: that mind-blowing moment”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“computer program can play havoc with climate-control systems. A particularly nasty pathogen—mutant strains of bacteria”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“The Moon is a dead rock—eighty-one quintillion tons”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“Geniuses are their own saviors.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“Torkie Macleod has always regarded himself as a realist. He doesn’t believe in life after death or divine reward or resurrection. He doesn’t even believe in leaving a legacy, insofar as anything of that nature, good or bad, is completely insignificant to the one who is dead. Torkie’s pragmatic philosophy has always been to make the most of his limited time alive, which for him means not striving for fame or riches, not ticking off a list of famous destinations, not indulging in any death-defying feats, and certainly not raising a family to “carry on his name.” to Torkie Macleod, realist, life means making decent money with limited effort, hanging around with cool people, not being bossed around by anyone, and ingesting any mind-altering substance he chooses without a scintilla of shame or regret.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.
Move. Move. While others sleep, move.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“My job is to cry cock-a-doodle-doo - and after that, I do not give a shit.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side