162 Quotes by Peter Watts

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

My genes done gone and tricked my brainBy making fucking feel so greatThat's how the little creeps attainTheir plan to fuckin' replicateBut brain's got tricks itself, you seeTo get the bang but not the biteI got this here vasectomyMy genes can fuck themselves tonight.- The R-Selectors, Trunclade

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

The great thing about making yourself the villain is nobody’s likely to contradict you.

The Gang of Four may have run multiple systems on a single motherboard, but each had its own distinct topology and they only surfaced one at a time.

I know this hasn't been a seamless narrative. I've had to shatter the story and string its fragments out along a death lasting decades.

People put a lot less effort into picking apart evidence that confirms what they already believe.

Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?