# River of Gods

- Author: [Ian McDonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/river-of-gods

## Quotes

> The elephants fight but the rats go about their business.

p. 458

> His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.

p. 249

> "This is now a matter of national security, sir."
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> "This is Franz Kafka, is what it is."
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> Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down.
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> "He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony."
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> "Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue."

p. 444

> How proud he would have felt [...] to have seen those seeds germinate into a Muslim nation, a Land of the Pure. How it would have broken his heart to see that Land of the Pure become a medieval theocracy and then rip itself apart in tribal factionalism. The Word of God prophecies from the barrel of an AK47.

p. 411

> Half your DNA's owned by some biotech corporation. Every time you have sex, you break copyright.

p. 58

> I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty

p. 27

> "The words still don't move."
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> "The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."

p. 239

> Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

p. 42

> The laws of economics are subject to the laws of physics. The physical processes that govern this planet and the continued life upon it place as stringent an upper limit on economic growth as the speed of light does on our knowledge of the universe.

p. 93