Quotes from Daniel H. Wilson

Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments.

Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and it makes you think, period. Claiming anything more than that is dicey. Grand visions of the future were more prevalent in the golden-age science fiction, but all fiction is a reflection of the current times. As science moves more quickly, the horizon of science fiction tends to recede closer to the present.

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

You never know when Rob will want to party.

You are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help wanting it. You 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.

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.

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

If you don't die screaming in this war, then you're fuckin' doing it wrong. At least I'm fucking doing it right.

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.

And now the story begins for the last time.

Lark Iron Cloud, used to say that if you don't die screaming in this war, then you're fuckin' doing it wrong. At least I'm fucking doing it right.

I found stories trapped in patterns of neurons.

IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED Achilles' heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits.

Wherever a dangerous new technology exists, there is a guy with cool goggles and streaky blonde hair waiting to shatter his fibula.

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?

In the grand scheme of things, all human beings are part of the same family, regardless of origin.* The divisions we have built between ourselves along the lines of race and geography are illusions.

Like standing in a creek with the water flowing against your legs, you know?

most people are good," says Jim. "But not when they're afraid.

A little bit of self-experimentation never hurt anybody, except when it did.

We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.

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

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

Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal

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