“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.” — Peter Watts Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.” — Peter Watts Chaotic Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Algorithms Copy Share Image
“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.” — Peter Watts Intelligence Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Altruism Copy Share Image
“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.” — Peter Watts Habits Copy Share Image
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts Best effort Copy Share Image
“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet… — Peter Watts Fire Copy Share Image
“Now keep in mind, memories aren’t historical archives. They’re—improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might… — Peter Watts History Copy Share Image
What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive? — Peter Watts Alive Copy Share Image
“The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.” — Peter Watts Escaping Copy Share Image
“Szpindel’s eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.” — Peter Watts Caterpillars Copy Share Image
Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes — Peter Watts Physics Copy Share Image
“The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.” — Peter Watts Death Copy Share Image
“But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.” — Peter Watts Claustrophobia Copy Share Image
“Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.” — Peter Watts Planck Copy Share Image
“ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH. —PETE RICHERSON AND ROBERT BOYD” — Peter Watts Animals Copy Share Image
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the… — Peter Watts Communicate Copy Share Image
“ Everyone’s got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn’t noticed.” He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.” — Peter Watts Decades Copy Share Image
“So there’s a membrane of—of living tissue around that star,” I say, trying to wrap my head around the concept. “A, a… — Peter Watts Astronomy Copy Share Image
If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert — Peter Watts Boss Copy Share Image
“I think I’ll call you Cygnus,” Chelsea said. “The swan?” I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She… — Peter Watts Black hole Copy Share Image
“(At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to… — Peter Watts Apes Copy Share Image
“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for… — Peter Watts Computation Copy Share Image
“You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and… — Peter Watts Animal Copy Share Image
“People simply can’t accept that patterns carry their own intelligence, quite apart from the semantic content that clings to their surfaces; if… — Peter Watts Along for the ride Copy Share Image
“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels… — Peter Watts Cynicism Copy Share Image
“Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and… — Peter Watts Biology Copy Share Image
“All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics—they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not… — Peter Watts Conservatism Copy Share Image
“...something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes… — Peter Watts Ur Eyes 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 Sleep apnea Copy Share Image
“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if… — Peter Watts Humanity Copy Share Image
“Vampires did this all the time, you remember. It was normal for them, it was their own unique take on resource conservation.… — Peter Watts Time Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then… — Peter Watts Art Copy Share Image
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the… — Peter Watts Humble beginnings Copy Share Image
