Quotes About Humans

Three brown horses thundered in circles in a nearby pen, panicked by the flames and running in circles to avoid a danger that wasn't even a minor threat to them. Idiot creatures. Not unlike humans.

They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn't want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.

If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.

I was unimpressed, having heard ART's "villain of a long-running mythic adventure serial" voice before, but all the humans got quiet. Amena shifted uncertainly and looked at me. Then Ratthi whispered, "Was that a subtle threat?" I said, "No. It wasn't subtle.

This is why I didn't want to come. I've got four perfectly good humans here and I didn't want them to get killed by whatever took out DeltFall. It's not like I cared about them personally, but it would look bad on my record, and my record was already pretty terrible.

You know that thing humans do where they think they're being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can't stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.

Then there was Asshole Research Transport. ART's official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients' lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.)

think you're emotionally compromised right now." That was Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that was so completely not true. Stupid humans. Sure, I'd had an emotional breakdown with the whole evisceration thing, but I was fine now, despite the drop in performance reliability. Absolutely fine. And I had to kill the rest of the Targets in the extremely painful ways I'd been visualizing.

The humans hadn't gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying.

I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.

I was still disoriented, and having a moment where I wondered if hey, maybe all the humans were right for once and this was a terrible idea.

After spending my entire existence having to gently suggest to humans that they not do things that would probably get them killed, it was nice to be able to tell them in so many words to not be so fucking stupid. But I didn't regret doing it.)

On the feed the humans settled some details of what I was designating as Operation Not Actually A Completely Terrible Plan.

humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

WHEN I GOT BACK to HaveRatton Station, a bunch of humans tried to kill me. Considering how much I'd been thinking about killing a bunch of humans, it was only fair.

Miki said, It's okay, Rin. Don Abene is always cautious. I'd seen lots of dead cautious humans, but I wasn't going to say that to Miki.

Just a regular projectile, not an explosive one, so most of my back was still there. I just didn't feel like walking around leaking in front of humans right now.

Sometimes humans can't help but let emotion bleed through into the feed.

Humans are nervous of me because I'm a terrifying murderbot, and I'm nervous of them because they're humans.

But mostly because the news was boring and I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

I didn't want to see helpless humans. I'd rather see smart ones rescuing each other.

SecUnits aren't sentimental about each other. We aren't friends, the way the characters on the serials are, or the way my humans were. We can't trust each other, even if we work together. Even if you don't have clients who decide to entertain themselves by ordering their SecUnits to fight each other.

If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.

I never asked clients for information if I could help it. (For a lot of reasons but close to the top was the all-too-common suicidal lack of attention to detail humans were prone to.)