Nick Harkaway quote: "Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity."

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bit...
NICK HARKAWAY

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY

Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way...
NICK HARKAWAY

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what ...
NICK HARKAWAY

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a...
NICK HARKAWAY

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people woul...
NICK HARKAWAY

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was re...
NICK HARKAWAY

Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wr...
NICK HARKAWAY

A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under brigh...
NICK HARKAWAY

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxin...
NICK HARKAWAY

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibil...
NICK HARKAWAY

Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not ...
NICK HARKAWAY

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
NICK HARKAWAY

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human sufferi...
NICK HARKAWAY

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country th...
NICK HARKAWAY

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get...
NICK HARKAWAY

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchise...
NICK HARKAWAY

As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act struc...
NICK HARKAWAY

Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind ...
NICK HARKAWAY

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fe...
NICK HARKAWAY

To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the page...
NICK HARKAWAY

E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-form...
NICK HARKAWAY

With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't...
NICK HARKAWAY

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a se...
NICK HARKAWAY

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a pol...
NICK HARKAWAY

Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oi...
NICK HARKAWAY

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer te...
NICK HARKAWAY

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out...
NICK HARKAWAY

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a l...
NICK HARKAWAY

I do not propose that everyone in Guantanamo or its evil twin at Bagram is innocent. I just don'...
NICK HARKAWAY

I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book...
NICK HARKAWAY

The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and ple...
NICK HARKAWAY

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but...
NICK HARKAWAY

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we eve...
NICK HARKAWAY

I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it'...
NICK HARKAWAY

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much t...
NICK HARKAWAY

Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned ...
NICK HARKAWAY

I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do ...
NICK HARKAWAY

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback ...
NICK HARKAWAY

This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary...
NICK HARKAWAY

Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond...
NICK HARKAWAY

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's har...
NICK HARKAWAY

In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I've done, I can always cla...
NICK HARKAWAY

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real pow...
NICK HARKAWAY

Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces c...
NICK HARKAWAY

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myse...
NICK HARKAWAY

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant.
NICK HARKAWAY

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the s...
NICK HARKAWAY

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into w...
NICK HARKAWAY

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the m...
NICK HARKAWAY

Joshua Joseph has no real hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureles...
NICK HARKAWAY

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most a...
NICK HARKAWAY

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delu...
NICK HARKAWAY

He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY

He wondered if today was that day, if he’d wake up different, wake up someone else who remembered ...
NICK HARKAWAY

That went well," Christina murmured to him.

"Pffaww," he agreed. "They're a pair! They do...
NICK HARKAWAY

The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of hi...
NICK HARKAWAY

Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino h...
NICK HARKAWAY

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
NICK HARKAWAY

Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.
NICK HARKAWAY

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
NICK HARKAWAY

Because if we were all the same, then we would all share the same weaknesses.
NICK

Being scared is simply fear of incompetence.
NICK

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
NICK CANNON

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o...
NICK CANNON

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them be...
NICK CANNON

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of eve...
NICK CANNON

Real men change diapers!
NICK CANNON

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say ...
NICK CANNON

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in ...
NICK CANNON

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.
NICK CANNON

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
NICK CANNON

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as lon...
NICK CANNON

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream...
NICK CANNON

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
NICK CANNON

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
NICK CANNON

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to ...
NICK CANNON

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the...
NICK CANNON

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same ...
NICK CANNON

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
NICK CANNON

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm prob...
NICK CANNON

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing ...
NICK NOLTE

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Eu...
NICK CLEGG

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec...
NICK CLEGG

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
NICK MASON

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the...
NICK DAVIES

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.
NICK CANNON

I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing aroun...
NICK CLEGG

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I r...
NICK KROLL

I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ...
NICK JONAS

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at th...
NICK CLEGG

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
NICK CARTER

Fantasy football has changed how I watch football because now every game is interesting start to fin...
NICK KROLL

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
NICK WOODMAN

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on...
NICK CLEGG

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
NICK RICHARDSON

People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g...
NICK JONAS

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get...
NICK CLEGG

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun....
NICK ROBINSON

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel ove...
NICK SAGAN

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o...
NICK TURSE

At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the...
NICK CUMMINS

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing ...
NICK HORNBY

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at th...
NICK OFFERMAN

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
NICK GORSKI

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be &...
NICK MORAN

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
NICK KROLL

So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The com...
NICK BILTON

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...
NICK HORNBY

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...
NICK HORNBY

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from be...
NICK TROUT

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close...
NICK TROUT

As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to wher...
NICK HORNBY

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
NICK HORNBY

The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
NICK FALDO

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
NICK NUESSLE

With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you alwa...
NICK LYONS

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
NICK NOLTE

Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's...
NICK DIPAOLO

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
NICK DIAMOS

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to d...
NICK WOODMAN

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have ...
NICK WOODMAN

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas...
NICK BOSTROM

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace wit...
NICK KROLL

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can....
NICK WOODMAN

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for ac...
NICK CANNON

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and ...
NICK CANNON

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the...
NICK JONAS

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
NICK JOHNSON

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing th...
NICK CAVE

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for t...
NICK CAVE

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information a...
NICK CAVE

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the ...
NICK CAVE

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I...
NICK CAVE

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
NICK CAVE

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
NICK CAVE

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful c...
NICK CAVE

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked o...
NICK CAVE

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television i...
NICK CAVE

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
NICK CAVE

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo...
NICK CAVE

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem ...
NICK CAVE

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
NICK CAVE

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeo...
NICK CAVE

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always b...
NICK CAVE

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVE

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
NICK CAVE

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have ...
NICK CAVE

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVE

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to preven...
NICK CAVE

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown ...
NICK NOLTE

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped fr...
NICK CLEGG

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense o...
NICK CAVE

Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their s...
NICK LAMPSON

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud...
NICK LAMPSON

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritar...
NICK LAMPSON

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist th...
NICK LAMPSON

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
NICK LAMPSON

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like Presi...
NICK LAMPSON

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past thr...
NICK LAMPSON

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made me...
NICK LAMPSON

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health...
NICK LAMPSON

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once a...
NICK LAMPSON

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge ...
NICK LAMPSON

The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allow...
NICK LAMPSON

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no ...
NICK LAMPSON

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the b...
NICK LAMPSON

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement an...
NICK LAMPSON

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that e...
NICK LAMPSON

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign do...
NICK LAMPSON

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
NICK LAMPSON

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patrioti...
NICK LAMPSON

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
NICK LAMPSON

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'
NICK CANNON

I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other thro...
NICK CANNON

I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the ...
NICK CANNON

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts ...
NICK CAVE

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you...
NICK JONAS

I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at scie...
NICK RHODES

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
NICK MASON

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They...
NICK HANAUER

Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands...
NICK SZABO

Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.

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Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.

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