“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“Demolition is a part of construction.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do.
It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“Technology changes, but people stay the same.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it...cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“I don't think. I react. My action is divorced from all emotion and logic. It isn't human or inhuman-it just is.
I believe that choices like these, made in absolute crisis, come from our True Selves, bypassing all experience and thought. These kinds of choices are the closest thing to fate that human beings will ever experience.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“See you in the funny pages...mate”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your ancestors’ lives, the rise and fall of your nations, every pink and squirming baby—they have all led you here, to this moment, where you have fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor. You have expired. You have accomplished what you were designed to do.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“She is staring into hell and I'm not brave enough to join her.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“The buttons I usually push don't need my force, only my intention. Buttons are supposed to be servants, waiting to deliver your commands to the machine. Instead, this loud, dumb piece of steel I'm driving demands that I pay strict attention to every turn of the road, keep my hands and feet ready at all times.
The car takes no responsibility for the job of driving. It leaves me in total control.
I hate it. I don't want control. I just want to get there”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
“The road ain't even marked. Home don't have to be.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, quote from Robopocalypse
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“The changes that happen in the mommy brain are the most profound and permanent of a woman’s life. For as long as her child is living under her roof, her GPS system of brain circuits will be dedicated to tracking that beloved child. Long after the grown baby leaves the nest, the tracking device continues to work. Perhaps this is why so many mothers experience intense grief and panic when they lose day-to-day contact with the person their brain tells them is an extension of their own reality.”
― Louann Brizendine, quote from The Female Brain
“Early to bed, early to rise,” Ziggy said. “Early or late,”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Arcade Catastrophe
“Economic development is not a zero-sum game; the world does not need poor countries in order to have rich countries, nor must some people be poor in order for others to be rich. Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house. They are poor despite the fact that Bill Gates lives in a big house. For a complex array of reasons, America’s poor have not shared in the productivity gains spawned by Microsoft Windows. Bill Gates did not take their pie away; he did not stand in the way of their success or benefit from their misfortunes.”
― Charles Wheelan, quote from Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
“Everything that motivates living creatures is based on
some weakness or flaw. Hunger motivates animals. Lust
motivates animals. Fear and pain motivate animals. A God
would have none of those impulses. Humans are driven by
all of our animal passions plus loftier-sounding things like
self-actualization and creativity and freedom and love”
― Scott Adams, quote from God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“A Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, came to America more than a century ago and made some astute observations about the American way. He said that we have a misleading idea at the very head of our Constitution: the pursuit of happiness. One can not pursue happiness; if he does he obscures it. If he will proceed with the human task of life, the relocation of the center of gravity of the personality to something greater outside itself, happiness will be the outcome.”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from What It is Like to Go to War
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