“-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?"
-"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.”
― Surface Detail
-"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.”
― Surface Detail
“He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.”
― Surface Detail
― Surface Detail
“The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it. So they long ago plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain amount of porterage and being prodded with sticks, allowed them adequate food and grooming and the chance to spit in a human's eye and get away with it.”
― Pyramids
― Pyramids
“I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.”
― The Bridge
― The Bridge
“It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise.”
― Surface Detail
― Surface Detail
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