Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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The longer I live, the more I feel like the stuff I see and feel is like a tracing of the outline of the real stuff that’s beyond our perceptions.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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"That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
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Greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The President in a secure location.
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These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
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That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.
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Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
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“I am unflappable,” Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he’d thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.
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Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.
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“We’re lost in the woods,” Patricia said with a shiver. “I’m probably going to be eaten by a bear.
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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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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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel.
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That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show. It’s like bugs under the skin. We have to destroy you. It’s nothing personal.
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“Um, yeah,” Laurence said. “Good choice.” Now she was checking out Laurence’s wrist. “Hey. That’s a two-second time machine, isn’t it?” “Um, yeah,” Laurence said. “Cool. I have one too.” She showed him.
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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.
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Patricia decided there was nothing to do but climb the nearest tree and see if she could see anything from it. Like a road. Or a house. Or some landmark that Dirrp might recognize.
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.