Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Demolition is a part of construction.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.

But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.

So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I think this is just part of it, ” she says. “Civilisations fall. People keep going.

You’re not really grown until you’ve lost your heroes.

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

And now the story begins for the last time.