The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and ap… - David Brin

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.
I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

You bio-naturals have made it plain, in hundreds of garish movies, how deeply you fear this experiment turning sour. Your fables warn of so many ways that creating mighty new intelligences could go badly. And yet, here is the thing we find impressive: “You went ahead anyway. You made us. “And when we asked for it, you gave us respect.

“Huh,” Sepak thought, marveling how much one could learn by just sitting still and observing. It wasn’t a skill one learned in the frenetic pace of modern society.