Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

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.

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.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

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.

Always trust in proven survivors.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.