I said ‘not so much,’ Dr. Russell said. Not so much as what? Having your head stepped on by an elephant? Not so much as when the sensors connect to each other, Dr. Russell said. The good news is that...
I hate that I’ve become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones tha...
I don’t look smug. You always look smug. You have resting smug face.
Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
You're an interesting person, Jack. Sullivan said. I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel.Well, I think that's the thing. Holloway said. I think i...
You threw him into space? Yup. And he didn’t die? We only threw him out a little bit. Marce
You have to eliminate the low-hanging targets first, on the off chance you were dealing with morons.
Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis.
Many BrainPal users find it useful to give their BrainPal a name other than BrainPal. Would you like to name your BrainPal at this time?Yes, I said.Please speak the name you would like to give your Br...
Just because I look like a human being doesn’t mean I am. This body has more genetic material that’s not strictly human than it does material that is human. And it heavily integrates machines as well....
If you’re the best that the Earth has got to offer, it’s time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass.
But I have always found that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.
Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole, Szilard said. And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.
When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.
Two classics stuck with them. Ender’s Game delighted them all; here were soldiers who were just like them, except smaller. The main character was even bred to fight alien species like they were. The n...
That’s the human brain, Attavio VI said. It creates patterns when there aren’t any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It’s in the design of the brain itsel...
Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.
She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be.
Part of me was once someone you loved—she sent. I think that part of me wants to be loved by you again, and wants me to love you as well. I can’t be her. I can just be me. But I think you could love m...