162 Quotes by Peter Watts

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

When you’re undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.

nouveaux undead

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there’s gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.

It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

Even God can’t plan for everything. Too many variables.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.