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“Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.”

Ian McDonald book The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 2, §8 (p. 72)

Mathematics , Science

“"This is now a matter of national security, sir."
"This is Franz Kafka, is what it is."
Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down.
"He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony."
"Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue."”

Ian McDonald book River of Gods

Source: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 42 (p. 444).

Dead

“Ghosts? Pah. We are the most substantial things in the world, the foundations of the present. We are memories.”

Ian McDonald book Desolation Road

Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 54 (p. 270).

World , Memory