Emma Newman Quotes

Don’t believe anything on the news feeds. It’s all just a circus for the masses.

Her voice cracks and I fight the tug of memories trying to pull me back to that place where people thought he was the center of the universe. I feel a flash of hatred toward her for being so broken by the loss of him, for needing him so much when he was just a man who scooped up the human detritus from the edges of society and fooled them into thinking they were part of something special.

He’s trying to get me to confess some fictional problem to him and I won’t fall for it.

Maybe one day I’ll be able to live somewhere with a garden. I’ll be old but skilled enough to still have some consultancy work to pay for the space to grow real food. Hands in the dirt again. Doing something real. No people around. Yeah, that’s the dream. Strange how the things we rail against and hate in our youth can be the things we crave as we get older.

I think “majority” is one of my least favorite words. It’s so often used to justify bad decisions.

That’s the trouble with these violent mersives: once the limbic system gets involved my higher cognitive functions are screwed.

Nobody does emotional distancing from reprehensible behavior better than the British, after all.

I know enough to never take journalists at their word.

The car takes us along a long, winding drive, the kind reserved for the sort of place owned by people who want you to spend the last minutes of your journey appreciating just how rich they are.

No. I won’t think about that. I’m not the man the press wants me to be. I am not the victim here.

There may be only a thousand or so people here, but it’s easy enough to make the pressure of conformity irresistible. Hell, sometimes we only need one other person to make us fall into line.

As a scientist, I know this is madness. But I also know this is an act of faith.

All too easy to find the needle when you know exactly where to look in the haystack.

Show me a person who doesn’t have ongoing problems and I’ll show you an AI.

It’s the first rule of any change to a licensing agreement: it’s not for the benefit of the end user, no matter what they say.