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To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once. - Nick Harkaway
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I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home. - Nick Harkaway
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If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great. - Nick Harkaway
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My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one. - Nick Harkaway
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Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player. - Nick Harkaway
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We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. - Nick Harkaway
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We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context. - Nick Harkaway
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The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale. - Nick Harkaway
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The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us. - Nick Harkaway
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The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. - Nick Harkaway
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In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down. - Nick Harkaway
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In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest. - Nick Harkaway
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With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink. - Nick Harkaway
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Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. - Nick Harkaway
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The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. - Nick Harkaway
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#World
At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. - Nick Harkaway
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In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us. - Nick Harkaway
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Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too. - Nick Harkaway
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