“This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing.… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?" "Yes. They're prideful and tend… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“We were deluged together in the raw, unbalanced Stuff of the universe. Inevitable consequence: My own little reification. I was made flesh, and in… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Her eyes are very bright. She loves senses, loves the world. He finds that…admirable, and a bit daunting. I am a mole. I am… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.” — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“She has to admit privately that she may be mad. Although if so, it is a merciless, clear-sighted sort of madness and not at… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome,… — nick harkaway Copy Share Image
“Yes. Edie Banister has gone postal. A very British sort of postal which does not involve shouting, but rather a sudden and total reverse… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
