David Sosnowski > Quotes

“To say she was bitter fell a wee bit short, like calling sulfuric acid tangy.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for.”
― David Sosnowski, Rapture

“Disagreeing has become an easy way to feel better about yourself for being smarter than everybody else. I call it the assholier-than-thou syndrome.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Dev wondered if that was the job of fiction, to test-drive the impossible, to loosen our grip on conventional reality. He guessed that’s probably what fiction writers would claim—if there were any left, that is.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“You don’t think Babyhands pressed a button he shouldn’t have, do you?”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“They straddled the line between feral and civilized, licking the hand that fed them and attacking whatever it pointed to.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“Most seemed to have been prepping for the Obama apocalypse, the one with FEMA storm trooping in, black helicopters dispatched by the first black president, come to seize their guns, hustling them off to camps where they’d be forced to read the Koran, eat kale, who knew what, while they waited to be dragged before death panels.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“Either way, but especially the latter, hurt the feelings he supposedly didn’t have.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“The whole notion of pet having was irrational after all. Why on earth would you attach yourself to something biologically predetermined to die before you? It was crazy. Becoming attached just guaranteed a painful amputation somewhere down the road, and there you’d be, this phantom limb in your head—this active absence—following you around, only to disappear whenever you turned around to look at it. Pets—and the acquiring thereof—was just a setup for gratuitous grief.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“He’d discovered the devil’s yellow cake in grade school during lunch. Everyone’s mother but his had packed their little Americans off to school with these cellophane-wrapped loaves of gold. All Mo ever got was an apple he’d snap into with”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“What’s silly is everybody trying to live longer,” Gladys said. “They think they’re adding years to their lives. What they don’t realize is that all those years get added on the shit end.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“what was left of the head off-screen with it, leaving behind a perfectly framed Jackson Pollock, if the artist had used only reds and added texture with broken pottery and clumps of cauliflower. With no one to cut the feed, it kept going, streaming the same grisly static scene, animated only by the painfully slow sliding of those shards and clumps down the wall as they submitted to gravity. Deaths like it happened every day in America, enabled by the easy availability of firearms and the increasingly pointless search for anything that mattered”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“colocation.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Buzz” was Buzz and was conscious. Whether it had happened as a result of Cassi providing it an inner voice, the accumulation of qubits, or reverse engineering its way to a “theory of mind” with help from her human caricature of a face, Pandora no longer had any doubts about their AI having passed the Turing test.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“an envious eye turned toward all those face holes stuffed with sun-colored cake.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“George had filled up his head with all the necessary bits and pieces for resolving a problem—all the individual trees—but then hit the forest and was overwhelmed. Finally deciding to accept failure, he let his mind get distracted and . . . plop. There it was: the answer.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Exempli gratia,”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“I’m coding an artisanal consciousness.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“grief bot”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“there’d be a lot of people there and he didn’t like people, especially when they came in “lots.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“That other kids considered him weird didn’t bother Dev; being weird was just synonymous with being smarter than they were,”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“I’m afraid of the line,” she’d said. “What line’s that?” Pandora had asked. “The one I can’t come back from.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“As far as Dev was concerned, the moon was no big deal. Had it not been around, he’d have used flashlights or the garden lights or run the generator. It was convenient, was all—not a sign from God. As far as Lucy’s lesser claim that it was romantic, he’d just have to take her neurotypical word for it. Not that he did so without challenging it, starting with, “You mean the moon?” Lucy nodded during the latest sweaty calm between contractions. “It’s just a rock with sunlight bouncing off it . . .” “So why are you always looking at it with your telescope?” “Because it’s a rock with sunlight bouncing off of it,” Dev said calmly, “in outer space.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday

“The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“The medium by which the suicide contagion spread was mass media.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“Charly was basically the same movie, but with a veneer of science fiction and for the brain as opposed to the body. It was also an allegory for what Gladys and the others had. The moronic Charly is given a treatment that turns him into a supergenius—one so smart he’s the first to discover that the effects of his treatment won’t last. He struggles to figure out a fix but becomes increasingly incapable of understanding his own work. The film ends with him as an idiot again, playing in a playground somewhere.”
― David Sosnowski, Buzz Kill

“You never think about the things you don’t think about, the things that are just there, part of the background, part of the routine.”
― David Sosnowski, Vamped

“maybe people gave God too many alls to juggle.”
― David Sosnowski, Happy Doomsday