150 Quotes by Annalee Newitz

How many times had Paladin looked into this human face, its features animated by neurological impulse alone? He did not know. Even if he were to sort through his video memories and count them up one by one, he still didn’t think he would have the right answer. But after today’s mission, human faces would always look different to him. They would remind him of what it felt like to suffer, and to be relieved of suffering.

That’s when I decided the point of travel was not to observe history, but to change it.

My mother says that smart women are always crazy.

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.

She was designed to look human, her face the replica of a woman whose image Med’s tissue engineer had licensed from an old Facebook database.

The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.