38 quotes found
“The vampires win every time.”
“Technology implies belligerence.”
“Everythings an act. Everythings strategy.”
“Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.”
“Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.”
“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”
“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”
“If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert”
“After four thousand years we cant even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.”
“Once there were three tribes. The Optimists, whose patron saints were Drake and Sagan, believed in a universe crawling with gentle intelligencespiritual brethren vaster and more enlightened than we...”
“You cant turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.”
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”
“Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, Im Human again.”
“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness as Divine Spark. Consciousnes...”
“The statics nice. I could do without the screechi”
“But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.”
“You said it was colorful. What changed?""I don't know. Maybe nothing. I just I don't actually remember the dreams when I wake up any more.""So how do you know you still have them?" Pag asked.Fuck i...”
“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life meunderstand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”
“Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked."Vampires have folk tales?"He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or a...”
“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
“While a number of people have pointed out the various costs and drawbacks of sentience, few if any have taken the next step and wondered out loud if the whole damn thing isn't more trouble than it'...”
“Imagine you are Siri Keeton:You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty days. You can feel your blood, syrupy with dobutam...”
“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.”
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the c...”
