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“When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn’t help.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Now that I knew something was hacking the security cameras to watch me, I could use countermeasures. I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition