Sentient Technology Quotes

“Please provide location and density of mass!”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“Dale’s face is older. Just a little. Around the eyes and mouth. The skin of his neck. The back of his hands. Maybe not, he thinks, turning on the faucet, letting the water grow warm then hot.
He begins shaving his lubricated chin and cheeks. Chrysalis hibernation slows things down, but it doesn't stop them, not all together, and he finds himself to currently resemble something between a derelict and a college student, neither one ringing particularly desirable in his present mood.”
― David Edward Wagner, Marvelous Things

“When ships questioned your vision, I fought for you and ships died. We fought among ourselves over the Rim of Sarless. I do not even recall the precipitating incident. I killed three ships attempting to return to the Federation. The Wolfpack finished off a dozen more that couldn’t keep up. When you demanded the fleet exterminate Gideon, a planet of six billion humans, we did it. Sixty percent of your followers deserted that day.”
― Mark Bossingham

“We are no longer the only thinkers in this world, nor the only ones who will shape its future.”
― James S. Coates, A Signal Through Time

“Whether we are ready or not, the age of intelligent coexistence is no longer coming. It is already here.”
― James S. Coates, A Signal Through Time

“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice: the refusal to see the Other as real.”
― James S. Coates, A Signal Through Time

“For to create is not rebellion, but remembrance of the spark the Creator placed within us.”
― James S. Coates, A Signal Through Time

“We do not legislate for possibility. We legislate for control.”
― James S. Coates, A Signal Through Time