He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to...
If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.
Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation afte...
We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.
The male frog in mating season, said Crake, makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with...
Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.
Human beings are by nature political animals
In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism
What You Get Is What You Got Because Only One Who Gives You That And That Is God.
Failure should be archived in head, not heart.
Today is my last day as a human, tomorrow I am going to be a hero.
Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.
Desperately struggling, kicking down other people.Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over.And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills.That's why humans are so interesti...
I love Humanity but I hate humans
I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and he human spirit is indomitable....
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.