“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
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
“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
“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
“The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.” — Peter Watts Hope Copy Share Image
“Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.” — Peter Watts Human Copy Share Image
“You can’t kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical… — Peter Watts Conspiracy theories Copy Share Image
“Why’s a sticky word, though. It’s not especially productive to think of them as agents with agendas. Better to think of them… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t be bothered to work out the acceleration of free-falling bodies that gained weight with each meter, but down the length… — Peter Watts 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
“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams… — Peter Watts Dreams Copy Share Image
“Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why invent… — Peter Watts Environment Copy Share Image
“Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough… — Peter Watts Parenting 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
“...there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy” — Peter Watts Strategy Copy Share Image
“After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.” — Peter Watts Dreamer 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 Copy Share Image
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management… — Peter Watts Alternatives Copy Share Image
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable… — Peter Watts Awareness Copy Share Image
