“ Imagine you are Siri Keeton:You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty days. You can feel your blood, syrupy with dobutamine… Peter Watts
“ The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. Peter Watts
“ After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. Peter Watts
“ I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough… Peter Watts
“ Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building?… Peter Watts
“ If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert Peter Watts
