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“The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sight. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Molluscs aren’t mathematicians.”
― Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

“A long, ridged plastic tube, like a vacuum cleaner pipe, known as the slurp gun...”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“And this, I propose, is the inhuman soul of the algorithm. It may think for us, it may work for us, it may organize our lives for us. But the algorithm will never bleed for us. The algorithm will never suffer for us. The algorithm will never mourn for us. In this refusal lies the essence of its moral being.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability