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1. "Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

2. "Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

3. "Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

4. "Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

5. "There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

6. "The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

7. "These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

8. "Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

9. "The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?" ~ Daniel H. Wilson

10. "If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

11. "A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

12. "In the end, a man makes his own decisions. You decide, not the machine." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

13. "Necessity can obliterate our hatreds." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

14. "Through your actions here today—you have made humankind obsolete." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

15. "I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

16. "Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

17. "It'll turn me into a weapon,' I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,' says Jim. ‘Your body is just another tool. This technology changes nothing; it only amplifies. You decide how to use your tools. Whether to do good or evil." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

18. "It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

19. "Demolition is a part of construction." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

20. "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

21. "Technology changes, but people stay the same." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

22. "...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

23. "Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

24. "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

25. "A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

26. "You don't pick your revolution. It picks you." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

27. "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

28. "I'd rather be weird and know it than be a stupid ass." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

29. "I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

30. "It's the one thing we do better than any other animal.We communicate, cooperate, and make tools to extend our reach. Every new tool changes us...The old fears the new, and the two threaten destroy each other.Our technology is what makes us strong. And it's what makes us dangerous." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

31. "The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

32. "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

33. "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

34. "Memories fade but words hang around forever." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

35. "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

36. "She is staring into hell and I'm not brave enough to join her." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

37. "The buttons I usually push don't need my force, only my intention. Buttons are supposed to be servants, waiting to deliver your commands to the machine. Instead, this loud, dumb piece of steel I'm driving demands that I pay strict attention to every turn of the road, keep my hands and feet ready at all times. The car takes no responsibility for the job of driving. It leaves me in total control.I hate it. I don't want control. I just want to get there" ~ Daniel H. Wilson

38. "Human beings, perfected by our own technology. Only to be wielded by the chosen few. Not by the sheep but by those who are better, Those who are willing to make it to the stars through blood." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

39. "You know what you get when the mind and body act as one?...You get harmony...remember that. There is no you. There is no it. Mind and body need a single purpose." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

40. "They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" ~ Daniel H. Wilson

41. "Lies come as natural as the babbling of a creek." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

42. "Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

43. "See you in the funny pages...mate" ~ Daniel H. Wilson

44. "If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

45. "In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

46. "Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

47. "You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

48. "You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

49. "A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

50. "Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots." ~ Daniel H. Wilson

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