Daniel H. Wilson > Quotes

“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

“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

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

“...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.”
― 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

“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

“It's dangerous to be people-blind.”
― 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

“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

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

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

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

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

“See you in the funny pages...mate”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

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

“The human beings who appear in the data, survivors or not, are grouped under one machine designated classification:
Hero.
These damn machines knew us and loved us, even while they were tearing our civilization to shreds.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

“Necessity can obliterate our hatreds.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse