# Quote — Alastair Reynolds, On the Steel Breeze

> “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.”

- Author: [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md)
- Book: [On the Steel Breeze](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze.md)
- Page: 312
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#On_the_Steel_Breeze_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/i-cant-tell

## More from this book

> 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)