162 Quotes by Peter Watts

So many things constrain us, from so many directions.

She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There’s a reason fuckcubbies don’t come with fluorescent lights.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

Может, все вокруг настолько привыкли к побоям, что помогают любому, у кого ботинки побольше.

[T]hey don’t care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.

Nobody used an industrial vortex engine to run kitchen appliances.

So. The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality. At.

Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.