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Iain Banks Quotes

Iain Banks quotes

Scottish Writer February 16, 1954 – July 9, 2013

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Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision... Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to..."
My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it, Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like..."
Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot Iain Banks
I am not answering these questions anymore," I said to him as I took my plate to the sink. "We should have gone metric years ago."Iain Banks Iain Banks
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those"
It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "The bomb lives only as it is falling."
The bomb lives only as it is falling. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "All reality is a game."
All reality is a game. Iain Banks
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "I just think people overvalue argument because they like to..."
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "One should never mistake pattern for meaning."
One should never mistake pattern for meaning. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "You have to have something worth saying and then the ability..."
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue..."
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a..."
Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what..."
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite Iain Banks

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