Wesley Chu

Quotes

  1. “I don’t know how many ways I can say no before it sinks into his concrete head.”

    The rich rarely accept “no” as an answer.

    p. 201

  2. When there is no one else left to fight, then there will be nothing left but peace.

    p. 136

  3. “Tao, I don’t understand why I need to know this.”

    Advanced mathematics opens doors to many fields of study. More importantly, it expands the way you think.

    p. 112

  4. Conquering a kingdom is always the easy part. It is keeping it that is difficult.

    p. 192

  5. Fate is created, not ordained.

    p. 222

  6. You, somehow, have the greatest potential of all my hosts, and are one of the dumbest, at the same time.

    “Gee, thanks for the confidence booster.”

    On the contrary, it is brave stupid people who change the world. The smart ones are usually too smart to even try.

    p. 325

  7. The level of dumb you humans can achieve is quite mind-boggling.

    p. 49

  8. Conflict does breed innovation, but so does diversity and cultural development. Bringing people together to share ideas is just as powerful a catalyst.

    p. 325

  9. “The world spins despite me, not because of me,” he muttered.

    p. 146

  10. You’re not being paid to like your work.

    p. 58

  11. Symmetry, of course, was the scientific formula of beauty.

    p. 40

  12. When someone asked Roen what he did, he explained that he typed incoherent commands that performed virtual tasks to create intangible objects. At the end of the day, Roen wasn’t sure what he did or why he did it—just that every two weeks, he received a paycheck for the hours of his life wasted, building these imaginary things on some server located somewhere.

    p. 57