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Quotes from Artificial Condition — Martha Wells

born 1964 United States

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7 quotes

Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.

Artificial Condition (2018)

Humans are nervous of me because I’m a terrifying murderbot, and I’m nervous of them because they’re humans.

Artificial Condition (2018)

I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.

Artificial Condition (2018)

I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

Artificial Condition (2018)

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.

Artificial Condition (2018)

I am terrible at estimating human ages because it’s not one of the few things I care about. Also most of my experience is with the humans on the entertainment feed, and they aren’t anything like the ones you see in reality. (One of the many reasons I’m not fond of reality.)

Artificial Condition (2018)

SecUnits don’t care about the news…mostly because the news was boring and I didn’t care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn’t have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

Artificial Condition (2018)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martha Wells (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.