“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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“Why do you have to make it so difficult to apologize?' she burst out, dogging his heels as he crossed the room to gather the rest of his things.
'And why, pray tell, should I make it easy?' he returned.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.”
― Dave Eggers, quote from Zeitoun
“You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from Cities of the Plain
“Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from White Night
“phone, twisted it out of her hand, and slammed it on the hook. “I cry good, don’t I?” she asked with a grin, and she was out the door. “Davenport, Davenport,” Daniel moaned. He gripped handfuls of hair on the side of his head as he watched Jennifer finish the broadcast. “ . . . called by some the smartest man in the department, told me personally that he did not believe that Smithe is guilty of the spectacular murders and that he fears the premature arrest could destroy Smithe’s burgeoning career with the welfare department . . .” “Burgeoning career? TV people shouldn’t be allowed to use big words,” Lucas muttered. “So now what?” Daniel asked angrily. “How in the hell could you do this?” “I didn’t know I was,” Lucas said mildly. “I thought we were having a personal conversation.” “I told you that your dick was going to get you in trouble with that woman,” Daniel said. “What the hell am I going to tell Lester? He’s been out there in front of the cameras making his case and you’re talking to this puss behind his back. You cut his legs out from under him. He’ll be after your head.” “Tell him you’re suspending me. What’s bad? Two weeks? Then I’ll appeal to the civil-service board. Even if the board okays the suspension, it’ll be months from now. We should be able to put it off until this thing is settled, one way or another.” “Okay. That might do it.” Daniel nodded and then laughed unpleasantly, shaking his head. “Christ, I’m glad that wasn’t me getting grilled. You better get out of here before Lester arrives or we’ll be busting him for assault.” At two o’clock in the morning the telephone rang. Lucas looked up from the drawing table where he was working on Everwhen, reached over, and picked it up. “Hello?” “Still mad?” Jennifer asked. “ You bitch. Daniel’s suspending me. I’m giving interviews to everybody except you guys, you can go suck—” “Nasty, nasty—” He slammed the receiver back on the hook. A moment later the phone rang again. He watched it like a cobra, then picked it up, unable to resist. “I’m coming over,” she said, and hung up. Lucas reached for it, to call her, to tell her not to come, but stopped with his hand on the receiver. Jennifer wore a black leather jacket, jeans, black boots, and driving”
― John Sandford, quote from Rules of Prey
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