Quotes from Andrew Mayne

Pay attention. If something sounds suspicious, ask questions. Don't ignore it just because everyone else does. Our tools give us capabilities the rest of the public can't even imagine. If we're not vigilant, something bad could happen, and we might find those capabilities taken from us. I make mistakes. You make mistakes. Don't run from them. Seek them out. Correct them. Listen when someone is telling you something is suspicious. Don't ignore it.

The difference between the good and the bad is the law." "No, Jessica," Damian replies sharply. "The difference is that the good look out for the innocent and protect them from the wicked.

My life depends on a bunch of hipsters retweeting a plea from a man probably sitting on a Yoga ball right now.

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

These creatures are opportunistic cowards, afraid to take on something larger than them.

The woods were wrong.

If I were to break a law, it would only be of the kind that are designed to inconvenience. Law, like God, is only real when people believe in it. When you know the truth—that it's really just the good and bad we do to each other that really matters—you see things differently.

Remember, only two creatures have wings in the Bible: birds and demons," I point

Deep down we're all animals.

When things get bad, the trouble comes to the surface.

I think it is more than chance. It also tells me that if we want to avoid going extinct, we have to realize we're already at war with an enemy that's master genetic engineering and is conducting trillions of experiments every second, figurig out new ways to kill us.

I'd point out that by that logic, every living thing that manages to be born is a miracle—and if we're all miracles, then nobody is, because the word has lost its meaning. Life works or it doesn't.

It's a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn't make them disappear.

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

There are only two audible words on the entire tape from this man and you think he's the pope?" He asks me this as if he's a father questioning me, his teenage daughter, about the dent in the family car. Do men see these power relationships in the same way? Do other women? I put that question on the side burner.

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.

Back then, just like now, whenever people look the other way when evil is around them, the wicked will find it.

Would you invest in landscaping if you knew your property values were going to keep declining? Maybe it's better to spend your money on an escape pod with leather seats and a Bluetooth system.