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Quotes from Exit Strategy — Martha Wells

born 1964 United States

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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)

Real humans don’t act like the ones in the media.

Exit Strategy (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)

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)

It was very dramatic, like something out of a historical adventure serial. Also correct in every aspect except for all the facts, like something out of a historical adventure serial.

Exit Strategy (2018)

Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it’s the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.

Exit Strategy (2018)

“I don’t want to be human.”
Dr. Mensah said, “That’s not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.”
“That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Exit Strategy (2018)

Attribution

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