Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

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

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.

Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.

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.

Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.

You cannot fight entropy.

This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.

Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.

Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

I doubt any system that won't reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.

Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?

Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.

Consciousness is just a window into time.

If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you.

Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

babies are God's way of persuading parents to have teenagers.

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.

True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.

It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you

It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.

Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.