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“(“I don’t want to be human.”
Dr. Mensah said, “That’s not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.”
“That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“i was trying not to think about all the ways i'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“I know, I said. And I did know, and now I was having an emotion. Like a big overwhelming emotion. It felt bad but good, a weird combination of happy and sad and relieved, like something had been stuck and it wasn’t stuck anymore.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

“You’re stalling, ART-drone said. I am not. I can stand here and be useless without any ulterior motives, thanks.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse