Andreas Karpf > Quotes

“Any civilization that reached this pinnacle of development must have solved the more mundane woes of social inequities and basic survival.”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“its”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War,”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“decedents”
― Andreas Karpf, Latent Flaw

“Why do you have a government?” Alpha pressed. Don just stared at the alien without bothering to answer, so Kurt replied, “I don’t know…we’ve always had one.” “A government’s purpose is to manage a population’s access to limited resources.”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“no,”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“a layer of dust from its control panel.”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“The true power of Alpha’s little tool, however, lay in a machine learning algorithm the device would insert into the nodes. It was capable of identifying backdoors into servers using impossibly small amounts of data embedded in the communication traffic.”
― Andreas Karpf, Latent Flaw

“over hear your”
― Andreas Karpf, Latent Flaw

“A government’s purpose is to manage a population’s access to limited resources.”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“space as empty or a vacuum.”
― Andreas Karpf, Latent Flaw

“references to fairness and justice are irrelevant.” “What the hell do you mean?!” “This is simply a matter of survival. Morals, fairness, and justice…they don’t play a role in this.”
― Andreas Karpf, Latent Flaw

“five-angstrom”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“affected”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“The most general, qualitative definition of time is that it is the dimension that governs cause and effect.”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“basic tenants”
― Andreas Karpf, Prelude to Extinction

“What the hell is that?”
― Andreas Karpf, Latent Flaw