Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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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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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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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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Laurence kept sneaking looks under the table at his propped-open copy of Have Space Suit - Will Travel. He was already halfway through the book.
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...the scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
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“My god,” Mr. Rose was saying loud enough to ring through the crowded hallway. “What have you done?
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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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Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.
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Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.
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I mean, we're grown-ups now. Allegedly. And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we've grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled. I think it's probably healthy. I mean, little kids don't have to make decisions, unless something's very wrong. Maybe you can't make up your mind as easily, if you feel too much. You know?
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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It just … makes serendipity happen more often.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget all the stupid things I say as soon as I’ve finished saying them.
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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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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
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Every time you solve a problem you’d cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature’s way of striking a balance? We humans don’t have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
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Discovering a new phobia was like the opposite of falling in love.
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And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.