Quotes by Peter F. Hamilton - Page 1

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Life Is
Long
Resistance
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Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Order
Sometimes
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If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.
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Battlestar Galactica
Galactica
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You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.
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Embrace
Ideology
People
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The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.
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Technology
Abuse
Military
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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Science Fiction
Explore
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We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.
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Bringing
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There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Human Nature
Nature Always People
Badly
Eliminate
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Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.
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Being Human
Humans
Strive
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How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.
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Century
Light
Twenties
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Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.
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Concepts
Limitless
Opera
Reign
Array
Authors
Vast
Include
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I haven't yet written a book in a far-future utopia, where all bad things are eliminated, but it would be fun to do that one day and introduce some subversion.
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Bad Things
Subversion
Utopia
Eliminated
Introduce
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I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Believe
Doubt
Thinking
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HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.
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Kind
Office
Sound
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Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Clean
Clean Energy
Effects
Predict
Cheap
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You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Dream
Reality
Way
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You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.
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Civilization
Taken
Thinking
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This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.
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Age
Politician
World
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How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.
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Appreciate
Blessing
Way
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People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Chuck
Perception
Quantum
Science Fiction
Future Science Me
How Far
Offender
Page
References
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The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.
Peter F. Hamilton / Author
Balance
Passion
Path
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