Parenting Quote by Peter Watts

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

— Peter Watts

“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.”

— Peter Watts

“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon…

— Peter Watts

“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been…

— Peter Watts

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. All that…

— Peter Watts

“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in…

— Peter Watts

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

— Peter Watts

“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the…

— Peter Watts

“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do więzów krwi…

— Peter Watts

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

— Peter Watts

“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on…

— Peter Watts

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little…

— Peter Watts