23 Quotes by Hannu Rajaniemi

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.

The thief sighs. ‘Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger.

That one difference between animals and humans is that humans rarely admit to themselves what it is they really want.

You grip the katana lightly, like a calligrapher’s brush, and prepare to write a haiku of death.

I don’t understand people. I need to deduce things. I don’t know why anyone says or does anything if I don’t think about it.

There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.

She smiles, displaying an uneven row of sugar cube teeth.

It generates a gravitational disturbance that makes our spacetime emit a brane into the higher dimensions of the bulk. It bounces off the Planck brane and collides with ours again.