Peter Watts

“Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.”

“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”

“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”

“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.”

“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”

“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”