Dennis E. Taylor Quotes

What deities give you aren’t rules of morality,” Theresa responded. “They’re just rules. Do this and you’ll be rewarded. Do that and you’ll be punished. That’s how we teach our pets not to relieve themselves in the house. One would hope that true morality involved more than learning not to poop on the rug by being rapped on the nose.

All their base are belong to us.

That is what I think it is, right?” [Based on what we can detect, it appears to be the beginning of a Dyson Sphere] Ah-yep. Truly astounding.

We ran some image interpolations. It looks like he’s attaching busters to an ingot with cables.

I’d heard that the casinos were less happy with the level of gambling. Turns out nerds understand probability.

but my orderly mind liked to have a link between cause and effect. Plus, if I was going to create this kind of reaction in someone, I would rather have an end-game. Fighting some random idiot was a waste of energy.

This operation was being run either by a FAITH faction that didn’t approve of me or by one of the competing nations. Either way, they wanted me dead. It seemed to me that the Golden Rule applied. Time to reciprocate.

We took a minute to enjoy the joke — belly laughs are one of the best things about being sentient, and you should never miss a chance for one.

VEHEMENT appeared to be some kind of radical environmental group, whose ultimate goal was to save the world by removing humanity.

There are those who think we should give up all technology from steam power on up. And they all think they have direct divine approval. Needless to say, debates are low on logic and high on rhetoric. Except when they’re even higher on assassinations and sabotage.

hoped that in the fullness of time, they’d have the opportunity to get all bent out of shape about environmentalism.

I get it, Will. But a lot of people like the sense of certainty that religion gives them, and FAITH is all about nice, easily packaged black-and-white answers. Even if they’re factually wrong.

I believe that it is only possible to acquire true morality without input from a deity. It is only when you do something because you believe it is the right thing to do, instead of because of any moral desserts, that you are acting morally. Likewise, it is only when you refuse to do something because of the Golden Rule, rather than because of a threat of punishment, that you are behaving in a moral manner.

I set a couple of scavenger units the task of flying batches of refined material in-system on a regular schedule.

Dammit, your product is showing up in our territory. I’ve told you we’re not interested. I’ve forbade you from selling your devil’s brew here. I want it stopped.