Quotes About Peter Watts

I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said. "The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1." Ah. A dark, dense object that sucks up the light and destroys everything in its path. "Thanks a whole fucking lot.

So. The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality. At

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and His name is Physics.

We're on the bleeding edge of theistic virology here.

it's not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion. Though

There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of the exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.)

It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought.