Blindsight Quotes

#1. The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Peter Watts

#2. BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

Elizabeth Bear

#3. I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.

Li Keqiang

#4. I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

Jake Epstein

#5. The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Leonard Sweet

#6. My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

Steven Herrick

#7. There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Barbara Castle

#8. Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

Ian Niall

#9. Continuity, he thought, wasn't the same as stagnation.

Nora Roberts

#10. He might be mentally cut out for a desk job, but he doubted he'd fit behind most desks.

V.E Schwab

#11. I usually say that love and kindness are a universal religion.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.

Christiane Northrup

#13. I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.

Peter Watts

#14. The Gang of Four may have run multiple systems on a single motherboard, but each had its own distinct topology and they only surfaced one at a time.

Peter Watts

#15. Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

Neil Burger

#16. Thanks for being such a bully." I flattened my expression. "I wasn't a bully. I was merely a persistent peddler of holiday cheer.

Penny Reid

#17. Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Bob Dylan

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

Peter Watts

#19. I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

Gary Clark Jr.

#20. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone

Tacitus