Jérôme

“We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos,
tramps. Convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren’t psychos. That’s what we come from. We all know it, so why don’t we say it?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“You stupid bastard,’ sneered Orikan. ‘You got us box seats to a coup.’ ‘Well, the reviews were very good.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. AM wasn’t God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. AM could not wander, AM could not wonder, AM could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak soft creatures”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream