Alastair Reynolds

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that.

Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead in a few hours and you're acting like it's only a minor inconvenience.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?