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Most people are good," says Jim. "But not when they're afraid. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
If you don't die screaming in this war, then you're fuckin' doing it wrong. At least I'm fucking doing it right. -- Daniel H. Wilson
There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just ... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I'd rather be weird and know it than be a stupid ass. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
A little bit of self-experimentation never hurt anybody, except when it did. -- Daniel H. Wilson
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. -- Daniel H. Wilson
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Necessity can obliterate our hatreds. -- Daniel H. Wilson
They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down -- Daniel H. Wilson
A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Memories fade but words hang around forever. -- Daniel H. Wilson
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing ... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. -- Daniel H. Wilson
No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. -- Daniel H. Wilson
A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs. -- Daniel H. Wilson
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I hope this scene isn't playing out all over the nation. People like me struggling to grab what they can. Whole families, even. Grasping at the leftover shards of their lives. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature? -- Daniel H. Wilson
I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. -- Daniel H. Wilson
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back. -- Daniel H. Wilson
If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out. -- Daniel H. Wilson
We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary. -- Daniel H. Wilson
My porch feels as safe as a chocolate doughnut on an ant hill. -- Daniel H. Wilson
All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming. -- Daniel H. Wilson
All things are born from the mind of god. But in the last month, the mind of god has gone insane. -- Daniel H. Wilson
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. -- Daniel H. Wilson
And now the story begins for the last time. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The end of the world came and my job did not change. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It's the technology, see? We can't get away from it. Anywhere you find people, you find it. Clever little contraptions. Cunning strategies. We're toolmakers born and bred; and even if you don't believe in anything else, you'd better believe in that. Because that's human nature. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands. -- Daniel H. Wilson
But instead of the end, I'm pretty sure I found myself at the start of something. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I may be a simple man, but I am very good with an axe. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. ... Can events be guided so that we may survive? VERNOR VINGE, 1993 -- Daniel H. Wilson
Demolition is a part of construction. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It's the one thing we do better than any other animal.
We communicate, cooperate, and make tools to extend our reach. Every new tool changes us ... The old fears the new, and the two threaten destroy each other.
Our technology is what makes us strong. And it's what makes us dangerous. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things. -- Daniel H. Wilson
What the hell, I think. My pistol is on my hips and my balls are between my legs. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about. -- Daniel H. Wilson
She is staring into hell and I'm not brave enough to join her. -- Daniel H. Wilson
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants. -- Daniel H. Wilson
What is a mind, but a pattern? My mind or yours. Man or machine. Simply an arrangement of atoms. Each of us, a unique expression of the mind of the universe. -- Daniel H. Wilson
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Through your actions here today - you have made humankind obsolete. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The road ain't even marked. Home don't have to be. -- Daniel H. Wilson
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Human beings, perfected by our own technology. Only to be wielded by the chosen few. Not by the sheep but by those who are better, Those who are willing to make it to the stars through blood. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Having these boys around town in feral packs is like leaving dynamite out in the sun-something mighty useful and powerful turned into an accident waiting to happen. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. -- Daniel H. Wilson
We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it ... cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It's all just chemicals. -- Daniel H. Wilson
There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
See you in the funny pages...mate -- Daniel H. Wilson
Technology changes, but people stay the same. -- Daniel H. Wilson
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times. -- Daniel H. Wilson
In the end, a man makes his own decisions. You decide, not the machine. -- Daniel H. Wilson
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The human beings who appear in the data, survivors or not, are grouped under one machine designated classification:
Hero.
These damn machines knew us and loved us, even while they were tearing our civilization to shreds. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid. -- Daniel H. Wilson
There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You know what you get when the mind and body act as one? ... You get harmony ... remember that. There is no you. There is no it. Mind and body need a single purpose. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. Because most people are good. Right? -- Daniel H. Wilson
My mom insists that my friendships online aren't real. She says that until you meet someone in person, you don't really know them. I don't agree, -- Daniel H. Wilson
Like standing in a creek with the water flowing against your legs, you know? -- Daniel H. Wilson
Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I found stories trapped in patterns of neurons. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You're not really grown until you've lost your heroes. -- Daniel H. Wilson
These tools we love so much have burrowed under our skin like parasites ... Making us smarter and stronger and always, always more dependent. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal -- Daniel H. Wilson
You don't pick your revolution. It picks you. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Lies come as natural as the babbling of a creek. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
You never know when Rob will want to party. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The rules are there so that we can remember them and follow them. If the rules were obvious, we wouldn't have to write them down. -- Daniel H. Wilson
We sent a robot to do a man's job. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It's dangerous to be people-blind. -- Daniel H. Wilson