220 Quotes by Martha Wells

Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

Can you be a trifle more obscure? I think I almost understood what you said that last time.

It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing, and there is no safety.

I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.

They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions.

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

ART said, "I want an apology."I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.)ART said, "That was unnecessary."In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, "Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

I really needed to get around to setting that one-second delay on my mouth.

I am tired of the whole concept of humans right now.