Quotes About Humans

The only people I've run into who actually want to get into conversations with SecUnits are my weird humans. I said, "I have an alternate solution to both our problems

I was lying on the procedure table, my armor gone, just wearing what was left of my suit skin, the humans gathered around. That was a bit of a nightmare image.

I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media?

I had also been hit by at least four different recognition scans. These scans are usually searching for known humans or augmented humans that the station security is keeping tabs on, not random escaped SecUnits. (Random escaped SecUnits is not nearly as prevalent a problem as the entertainment feed would have you believe.)

Maybe the schedules hadn't been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

Mensah underestimated my ability to ignore humans but I appreciated the thought.

Yeah, good luck with that. Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.)

I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person and if I'm not careful I could be a thing again.)

But they were humans—who knows why they did anything?

I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.

I'm programmed to help humans." Eyebrow lift again. "You're not programmed to watch media." She had a point.

Picking up on my reaction, ART said, What does it want? To kill all the humans, I answered. I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function. If there were no humans, there would be no crew to protect and no reason to do research and fill its databases. It said, That is irrational. I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.

humans and augmented humans can't sign away their rights to their labor or bodily autonomy in perpetuity; that's like, straight-up illegal.)

The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves.

There was definitely a problem; the humans needed to recharge or sleep or whatever or their decision-making abilities would be even worse than usual.

So, I'm awkward with actual humans. It's not paranoia about my hacked governor module, and it's not them; it's me. I know I'm a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.

Since I hacked my governor module, it's not like I haven't thought about killing the humans. But once I started exploring the company servers and found hundreds of hours of downloadable entertainment media, I just thought, there's no hurry. I can always kill the humans later, after the next series drops.

I liked humans, I liked watching them on the entertainment feed, where they couldn't interact with me.

Plus, it was Preservation and there were no scanning drones, no armed human security, just some on-call human medics with bot assistants and "rangers" who mainly enforced environmental regulations and yelled at humans and augmented humans to get out of the way of the ground vehicles.

ART said, You are aboard the Perihelion, registered teaching and research vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Then it added, I'm not going to hurt your humans, you little idiot.

I was also planning to use the time to watch some Sanctuary Moon and recharge my ability to cope with humans at close quarters without losing my mind.

Wolves eat dogs." That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he'd given the matter a lot of consideration. "Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they'd all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization.

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

We have an unfounded fear that machines will someday start thinking like humans. What we should really fear is that humans have already started thinking like machines.