“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.” — Peter Watts Adulthood Copy Share Image
“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.” — Peter Watts Language 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
“The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.” — Peter Watts Birthday Copy Share Image
“The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.” — Peter Watts 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
What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive? — Peter Watts Alive 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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?” — Peter Watts History 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 Mind 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
“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 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
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old… — 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 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
“...something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes… — Peter Watts 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
“Dystopia is not always an unhappy place. There are, as it happens, certain dystopias in which it's perfectly possible to be happy… — Peter Watts Dystopia 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
“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
“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
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 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
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
