With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Evils carries the numbers 666. I am an opposite. I am 999.

Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.

Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.