# Quote — William Gibson, Agency

> “When we nudged Cursion into experimenting with Eunice,” Ash said, “we understood that we’d be destabilizing them…By now, destabilization has tipped over into dysfunction.”
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> “They were functional enough to mount an attack,” Wilf said.
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> “They’re not strategists,” said Ash, “though they assume they are. A fully functional, strategically sound opponent would be a greater threat, but without posing the sort of unpredictable danger they currently do.”

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [Agency](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/agency.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jackpot_trilogy#Agency_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/agency/when-we-nudged

## More from this book

> Netherton said nothing, something he’d only recently been learning to deliberately do.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/agency/netherton-said-nothing.md)

> “Turkey and Syria weirding you out?…Folks in Frankfurt made me feel like the Cold War never really went away. Somebody shoots down a couple of Russian jets, wham, it’s Cold War Atlantis, risen from the depths.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/agency/turkey-and-syria.md)

> “What’s going on?” asked Manuela, eyeing the container’s door. “Is this a cult? Kidnapping people and telling them somebody’s after them?”
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> “Let me think about it,” Verity said.
>
> “You’re kidnapped too? Let’s fucking escape!”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/agency/whats-going-on-asked.md)