Trond Gulvik Larsen

“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“I can also be kind of an asshole. (“Kind of” = in the 70 percent–80 percent range.)”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“It’s wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red