Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.
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One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant. Probably not, though.
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She already had enough people giving her shit for Aggrandizement, she didn’t need a friend who was sworn to tear her down.
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Roberta, meanwhile, had brown eyes, a pointy chin, and absolutely perfect posture when she sat without fidgeting in a grown-up chair and a clean white dress. With both girls, their parents had hoped for a boy and picked out a name in advance.
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Thirty bucks, okay? That’s pretty much my entire supercomputer fund.
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Palm Strike's main superpower is the stupidity of his enemies.
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All this time as a mad scientist why didn't he have a shrink ray or stun gun in his closet somewhere? He had been wasting his life.
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I don’t think a crow has ever even considered the categorical imperative.
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Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
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Nobody wanted to befriend someone who was both nerdy and bad at homework.
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Color returned to the world, cone time replaced rod time.
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People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.
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Okay. So you could just put me up in a tree and hope for the best, but I’ll probably get eaten or starve to death.” His head bobbed. “Or … I mean. There is one thing.” “What?”
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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“Hey, it’s a bird!” a voice said from the darkness just as Patricia reached the ground. “Come here, bird. I only want to bite you.
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“No!” Patricia’s eyes flooded and she felt short of breath. “You can’t! You can’t!” And then she was running, careening, with the red bucket in one hand. She could hear her sister behind her, smashing branches.
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On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly aware of magical everything is: the holodeck, the warp drive. It's possible that with wormholes we might eventually be able to do something like that. But the laws of physics are pretty unforgiving.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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LAURENCE AND SERAFINA went to an organic burger place, locally sourced, etc., and Serafina talked about her emotional robots. “You won’t believe the heuristics. They recognize faces, but also they recognize each face’s habitual emotional
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Even among humans, self-awareness has gradations.
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Crushed wing. Crying, in a pitch almost too high for Patricia to hear. She looked into the sparrow’s eye, enveloped by a dark stripe, and she saw its fear. Not just fear, but also misery - as if this bird knew it would die
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly.
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There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.