Influx QUOTES

2 " Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him.

And yet this place confirmed what they’d long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it—and were often tainted by it. Especially when success and peer approval beckoned. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions.

No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

4 " A thing can't exist in people's minds until it has a name. But with a name, it can exist in people's minds without existing at all. You should always come up with a name before you set out to create anything. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

6 " Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it—and were often tainted by it. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

8 " One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

10 " But human memories change each time they are recalled, Jon. This is known as memory reconsolidation. It’s part of a natural updating mechanism that imbues even old memories with current information as you recall them. Thus, human memory does not so much record the past as hold knowledge likely to be useful in the future. That’s why forgetting is a human’s default state. By contrast, remembering requires a complex cascade of chemistry. Were I to increase the concentration of protein kinase C at your synapses, your memory retention would double. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

12 " the others he wore simple work clothes—flannels and jeans with work boots. He was tall and handsome, with blue eyes and dirty-blond hair and a Donegal-style beard running along his broad jaw. He was athletically built with a charismatic, compelling look—like some rustic fashion model. And he had a vaguely familiar appearance. Grady felt certain he’d seen him somewhere before. Grady eyed the man warily. “Are you the foreman "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

14 " If it's truth you're after, there are wonders ahead… "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

16 " I’ve always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

18 " And all at once he noticed something about the people around him. It was as though they knew, somewhere deep down, that the future was overdue. "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx

20 " Human intellect, on the other hand, is expressed through a subatomic network of circuits contained within roughly three pounds of cerebral tissue, evolved over hundreds of millions of years into the most energy-efficient, generalized self-programming array currently known, powered by a mere four hundred twenty calories per day—or "

― Daniel Suarez , Influx