“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
“Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.” — Peter Watts Psychopathy 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
“Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it… — Peter Watts 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 only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.” — Peter Watts First contact 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
“You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and… — Peter Watts Dog 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 Children Copy Share Image
What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive? — Peter Watts Alive 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 Fitness Copy Share Image
Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes — Peter Watts Physics 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
“If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a… — Peter Watts Outnumbered Copy Share Image
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down… — Peter Watts Bloodline Copy Share Image
“Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded. Further predictions unreliable.” — Peter Watts Confidence 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
“ 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
“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
“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.” — Peter Watts Death Copy Share Image
