It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. - Dan Simmons

I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.

How about, she said, that you do the logical thing because it's the logical thing to do?

And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control—out of anyone's control. The essence of nanotech life's evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.
Humanity, you mean, said Lourdusamy.
Precisely.