Robert Rath > Quotes

“You stupid bastard,’ sneered Orikan. ‘You got us box seats to a coup.’ ‘Well, the reviews were very good.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“History requires two parties – the historian and their audience. Without that, one is just talking to oneself. So kindly stop screaming and you might learn something.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“Trazyn. Our ships are without atmosphere, unpressurised,’ Orikan said. ‘Do orks… breathe?’ A pause. ‘They have lungs.’ Prepare to repel boarders, Orikan signalled. In case.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“As you well know, data can change the systems that take it in. Data can carry a curse. That is impossible. The sermon makes a believer a fanatic. The political treatise turns the indifferent into a revolutionary. A lie exposed ruins a friendship. New information always affects the system that consumes it, at times catastrophically. That is the curse of data. All data. But data can be corrupted as well.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“Lord General, show me an island and my Guardsmen will take it. It is not a question of victory or defeat. It is a question of how many waves you are willing to lose.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“you can’t steal from the dead, that’s called archaeology.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“He would fist fight the sun if he thought it was telling him what to do.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“Do you have a statue of yourself, Orikan?’ Orikan stalked deeper into the cathedral. ‘You are an obscene egotist.’ ‘I only wonder if any cultures worship you as a living saint or spiritual protector. It is a simple binary question.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine