You train dogs by rewarding them. Punishment doesn’t actually work.
You take care of your tools, your tools take care of you.
You going to take the job? Miller said. I haven’t decided, Holden said. Which, since you are running a simulation of my brain, you already know. So you asking is really you telling me to take it. Stop...
You dropped a hammer under thrust, and it fell to the deck. Your government slaughtered six families of ethnic Chinese prospectors, someone pinned you to the living rock of Ceres with a three-foot tit...
You can’t take the Razorback, he said to the tiny red triangles. We are gone and gone and gone.
Yes, you’re in charge. That makes me XO, and it’s the XO’s job to tell the captain when he’s being an idiot. You’re being an idiot, sir.
Yeah, Alex said in his drawling voice. I mean, Naomi only got beat half to death. She can cut this Clarissa slack, it’s no big deal. But the captain’s girlfriend got hurt. He’s the real victim here.
Yeah, okay. That’s just self-serving enough I believe it, he said. Let’s get settled in.
Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That’s what war is.
When we go, go fast. Stop for nothing. Maximum aggression wins the day here.
What have we got? Ashford said. Short form.It's fucking weird, sir, Chan said.
What are you thinking, Amos? Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we’re done with the first part. Naomi
What about you? Scarlet asked. You have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?Not the fear, Han said. I just like being a little smarter than the next guy.That’s all it is?That, and I really hate payi...
We’re not making any official statements, especially when James Holden’s in the room. No offense, but your track record for blurting information at inopportune moments is the stuff of legend.
We’re not anarchists, she said. We have goals. We want to end the Empire.And replace it with what?You know what, Scarlet said. Her crossed arms matched his own. Are you trying to make fun of me?It was...
We’re fine now, Sanjrani said. We’ll be fine for three years. Maybe three and a half. Then the recycling systems stop being able to meet demand. We won’t have infrastructure in place to fill the gaps....
Well, mostly I’m a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante’s killer? That’s kind of awesome.
We may have to get clever before the next one shows up, but no matter what happens, we’ll keep firing until that thing is a cloud of complex molecules and regret.
Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument.
Too many people with too many agendas, and everyone was worried that the other guy would shoot them in the back. Of all the ways to go and meet the God-like alien whatever-they-were that built the pro...