# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, Galactic North

> Pretty smart piece of thinkware by all accounts: full Turing compliance; about as clever as you can make a machine before you have to start giving it human rights.

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [Galactic North](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north.md)
- Page: 277
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Galactic_North_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/pretty-smart-piece

## More from this book

> “All right, Marius—I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?”
>
> “I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.”

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/all-right-marius-i.md)

> “Only trying to make conversation, friend.”
>
> “Don’t bother—it’s an overrated activity at the best of times.”

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/only-trying-to-make.md)

> Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/galactic-north/afterwards-when-clavain.md)