Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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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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You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
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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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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
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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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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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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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If Patricia closed her eyes and breathed deeply, she could imagine the people unloading wooden foil-lined crates stamped with names of cities like Marrakesh and Bombay.
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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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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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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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“No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.
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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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Listen to yourself, hear your own footsteps, your breaths, your heartbeats, oh, how many rhythms you make as you come and go! you are an orchestra.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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"You promised you would never run away from me again,” she said. “I did promise that,” he said. “And I don’t remember you promising not to destroy my life’s work. So you have me there.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.