Hakan

“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
― Iain M. Banks, Excession

“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.”
― Iain Banks, Transition

“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
― Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata