37 quotes
For a being as sophisticated as you are, it is baffling how little understanding you have of the composition of your own mind.
Network Effect (2020)
There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
Rogue Protocol (2018)
I can’t tell if that’s you being passive aggressive or you being willfully obtuse.
Fugitive Telemetry (2021)
Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.
Exit Strategy (2018)
That sounded like a great plan, in that it didn’t involve me.
All Systems Red (2017)
Real humans don’t act like the ones in the media.
Exit Strategy (2018)
Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.
Artificial Condition (2018)
Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah’s family.
Network Effect (2020)
Humans are nervous of me because I’m a terrifying murderbot, and I’m nervous of them because they’re humans.
Artificial Condition (2018)
Since she was human she was doing it slowly (it was like watching algae grow).
Fugitive Telemetry (2021)
She said that in the normal human adolescent exasperated and borderline whiney tone. (That’s actually statistically normal for human adults, too.)
Network Effect (2020)
Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.
Network Effect (2020)
I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.
Artificial Condition (2018)
The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.
Exit Strategy (2018)
Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?
Exit Strategy (2018)
They’re academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrealistic and not depressing and sordid like reality.
All Systems Red (2017)
The station approach traffic was heavy, and we were showing a twenty-seven-minute docking delay. Twenty-seven minutes was more than enough time for me to do something stupid.
Exit Strategy (2018)
Because change is terrifying. Choices are terrifying. But having a thing in your head that kills you if you make a mistake is more terrifying.
Network Effect (2020)
I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.
Artificial Condition (2018)
Wow, that sounded pathetic. Like the “I want to be special! How come I’m not?” crap humans pull all the time.
Network Effect (2020)