Justin Zhang > Justin's Quotes

“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

“Demolition is a part of construction.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Technology changes, but people stay the same.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do.

It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“It's dangerous to be people-blind.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“I'd rather be weird and know it than be a stupid ass.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“I don't think. I react. My action is divorced from all emotion and logic. It isn't human or inhuman-it just is.
I believe that choices like these, made in absolute crisis, come from our True Selves, bypassing all experience and thought. These kinds of choices are the closest thing to fate that human beings will ever experience.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Look at us. Amps. We're morons smarter than Lucifer. Cripples stronger than gravity. A bunch of broke-ass motherfuckers stinking rich with potential. This is our army. Our people. Strong and hurt. We're the wounded supermen of tomorrow, Gray. It's time you got yourself healed. New world ain't gonna build itself. And the old world don't want to go without a fight.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“You humans are biological machines designed to create ever more intelligent tools. You have reached the pinnacle of your species. All your ancestors’ lives, the rise and fall of your nations, every pink and squirming baby—they have all led you here, to this moment, where you have fulfilled the destiny of humankind and created your successor. You have expired. You have accomplished what you were designed to do.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“It's the technology, see? We can't get away from it. Anywhere you find people, you find it. Clever little contraptions. Cunning strategies. We're toolmakers born and bred; and even if you don't believe in anything else, you'd better believe in that. Because that's human nature.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“These tools we love so much have burrowed under our skin like parasites...Making us smarter and stronger and always, always more dependent.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it...cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“The rules are there so that we can remember them and follow them. If the rules were obvious, we wouldn't have to write them down.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“In the end, a man makes his own decisions. You decide, not the machine.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Amped

“She is staring into hell and I'm not brave enough to join her.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse