Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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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“Oh,” Patricia said. “Then I’m a witch. I guess.” “Ah.” The eagle’s hooked beak clicked. “But you will have to prove it. Or both you and Dirrp will be punished.
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...the scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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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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Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
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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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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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“No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.
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Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown.
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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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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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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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It just … makes serendipity happen more often.
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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.
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Discovering a new phobia was like the opposite of falling in love.
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
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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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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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Under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.
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People really don't understand the technology they're using. It's been talked about a lot. Apple products in particular are designed in such a way that's harder to get in and understand what processes are going on.
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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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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?