Abhijeet Borkar

“He had bred them and mutated them and played all sorts of God, and now they wanted to know why and he had no answer.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“Senkovi’s personal theory was that the pressure of being in the middle of the food chain was an essential prerequisite for complex intelligence. Like humans (and like Portiid spiders, had he only known), octopuses had developed in a world where they were both hunter and hunted. Top predators, in Senkovi’s assessment, were an intellectual dead end.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“When you're having a hard time, it's natural to feel like you're having the hardest time in the world. And it's not selfish to feel that way.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“Every machine that is clever enough to pass the Turing test could also be clever enough not to pass it.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, Qualityland: Visit Tomorrow, Today!