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
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
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
“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.” — Peter Watts Language Copy Share Image
I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man… — Peter Watts Behinds 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
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
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. — Peter Watts Beautiful 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
“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
“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
“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.” — Peter Watts Fiction-novel 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
“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
“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
“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
“You can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .” — Peter Watts Beauty 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
“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
“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.” — Peter Watts Intelligence Copy Share Image
“It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.” — Peter Watts Beauty Copy Share Image
