# On the Steel Breeze

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Quotes: 14
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze

## Quotes

> Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/autocratic-governments-are.md)

> I had work to be getting on with. I’ve always had work to be getting on with. It’s what the universe was put there for: to give me things to do.

p. 523 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/i-had-work.md)

> Venus was a machine for making bad weather.

p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/venus-was-a-machine.md)

> All her concerns, all her fears, began to feel trifling. It was just a trick of perspective, really, seeing things as they truly were.

p. 506 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/all-her-concerns.md)

> They had hardly ever spoken of her life before the the day they met in Belém. It was what they had both agreed on, a relationship built on a solid foundation of mutual ignorance.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/they-had-hardly.md)

> Crime is an adaptive organism. Squeeze one niche and it moves into another.

p. 283 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/crime-is-an-adaptive.md)

> I ran an experiment and I got a result. That’s more useful to us than fifty years of theorising.

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/i-ran-an-experiment.md)

> I’ll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason.

p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/ill-argue-to-the.md)

> This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate.

p. 304 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/this-is-a-kindness.md)

> “That doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.”
>
> “Welcome to politics.”

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/that-doesnt-make.md)

> “I can’t tell you how much happier I’d be meeting a bunch of artificial intelligences if I also happened to have one on my side.”
>
> “Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.”

p. 312 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/i-cant-tell.md)

> Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.

p. 438 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/humanity-is-an-assemblage.md)

> “Could be worse, as they say.”
>
> “That’s the sum story of human history, isn’t it? Could be worse. As if that’s the very best that we can manage.”

p. 527 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/could-be-worse.md)

> Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.

p. 149 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/something-that-bad.md)