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“Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares em.”

“‘Ain’t I doin’ wrong, though?’ Huck said. He was troubled.
‘How am I s’posed to know what good is?’
‘Way I see it is dis. If’n ya gots to hab a rule to tells ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good ‘splained to ya, den ya cain’t be good. If’n ya need sum kinda God to tells ya right from wrong, den you won’t never know.’”

“…the more you talk about God and Jesus and heaven and hell, the better they feel.
The children said together, ‘And the better they feel, the safer we are’.”

“‘Don’t every man got a right to be free?’ Huck asked.
‘Ain’t no such things as rights,’ I said.”

“Eon, era, period, epoch: we are a race that has long sought to break things up, to separate, to draw lines between things that might otherwise have remained as one.”

“At what point does a thing cease to be whole?”

“I find that the more I hide, the more presentable I am to the world.”

“You could get away with anything if no one cared enough to check.”

“And what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known”

“We shouldn’t make these machines because we want them to be good for us, or good instead of us. We should make them because they can help us be better ourselves.”

“‘So how do you stay ethical in the tech sector?’

‘You don’t.’”

“Likewise, our morality as individuals is formed not by innate personality traits but by the variables of our environment.”

“People come to a text with so many prejudices formed by what they think they know about the author,”

“But the best revenge is to thrive.”

“Who has the right to write about suffering?”

“To be a scientist is to learn to live one’s life with questions that will never be answered, with the knowledge that one was too early or too late, with the anguish of not having been able to guess at the solution that, once presented, seems so obvious that one can only curse oneself for not seeing what one ought to have, if only one had looked in a slightly different direction.”

“…but I suppose I had thought until that point that there were a few absolutes in the world—that certain behaviors or acts, like murder, were inherently wrong, and others inherently correct. But my time on Ivu’ivu taught me that all ethics or morals are culturally relative.”

“But time, I’ve come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs: we
speak of managing time, but it is the opposite—our lives are filled with busyness because those thin chinks of time are all we can truly master.”

“To fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life.”