“You can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .” — Peter Watts Beauty Copy Share Image
“We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.” — Peter Watts Delusions Copy Share Image
“The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.” — Peter Watts Birthday Copy Share Image
“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.” — Peter Watts Language Copy Share Image
“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.” — Peter Watts Adulthood Copy Share Image
“Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.” — Peter Watts Psychopathy Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Computers Copy Share Image
“I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.” — Peter Watts Neologism Copy Share Image
“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?” — Peter Watts History Copy Share Image
You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can,… — Peter Watts Cheerful Copy Share Image
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal.… — Peter Watts Adequate Copy Share Image
“Truth had never been a priority. If believing a lie kept the genes proliferating, the system would believe that lie with all… — Peter Watts Faith Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its… — Peter Watts Absurd Copy Share Image
“The static’s nice. I could do without the screeching.” “Are you kidding? That’s the music of the spheres, commissar. It’s beautiful .… — Peter Watts Beautiful Copy Share Image
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet… — Peter Watts Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do… — Peter Watts Toga Copy Share Image
“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's… — Peter Watts Adrift Copy Share Image
“Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it… — Peter Watts Evolution Copy Share Image
“I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality… — Peter Watts Analogy Copy Share Image
“Brüks digested that. “Well, if it was supposed to be some kind of compliment, her delivery needs work. You’d think someone with… — Peter Watts Interpersonal skills Copy Share Image
“But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain… — Peter Watts Brain surgery Copy Share Image
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to… — Peter Watts Analysis Copy Share Image
“My genes done gone and tricked my brain By making fucking feel so great That's how the little creeps attain Their plan… — Peter Watts Procreation Copy Share Image
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old… — Peter Watts Brought Flowers Copy Share Image
“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable… — Peter Watts Communication Copy Share Image
“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness… — Peter Watts Consciousness Copy Share Image
“We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are… — Peter Watts Learning Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Body Copy Share Image
“But only part of him was listening. Another part, even if it hadn't read Chomsky or Jung or Sheldrake—who had time for… — Peter Watts Collective unconscious Copy Share Image
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Axes Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a moment's notice. The rules… — Peter Watts Civil liberties Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are Siri Keeton: You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one… — Peter Watts Science fiction Copy Share Image
“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.” — Peter Watts Animals Copy Share Image
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. — Peter Watts Beautiful Copy Share Image
