The Drowning Game Quotes

“And what I learned is that there is no virtue in being a bystander while the world burns. It isn’t enough to simply abstain from doing evil. You must fight it.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“When an artificial intelligence lies—presents false information as if it were true—we call these lies ‘hallucinations.’ The AI wants to give the human what that person wants and will lie to accomplish that goal. When I interact with the authorities, I do the same. I hallucinate.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“As Sun Tzu wrote, “The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the war has been won.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“Hunter and stalker. Eater of men.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“Did you know that in Nazi Germany, most of the population refused to acknowledge what was happening to the Jews? A smaller subset was actively complicit. By some accounts, those who were complicit included members of the Church.” I sipped the cognac; its sweetness burned. “All it takes is for people to look the other way.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“How easy it was to take for granted a safe home, a warm bed, a fair and reasonable government.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“My fear is that as AIs grow more sophisticated, humans will cede more control to the machines. It isn’t an exaggeration to say our humanity is at risk.” “Will it be a war,”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“No more pretense, Nadia. Yachting has become a cutthroat business. The so-called civilized days, the days of your father and grandfather, are long gone. Corporations are businesses, not lifestyles. Money matters more than relationships. I intend to build my empire on your father’s fallen kingdom.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“My fear is that as AIs grow more sophisticated, humans will cede more control to the machines. It isn’t an exaggeration to say our humanity is at risk.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“Do you really believe that, Mr. Weber? Do you believe that a young, successful businesswoman working on the most important project in her life would check herself into the most expensive hotel in the world’s most expensive city and then decide to leap from the balcony?”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“A tribute to man’s determination to navigate the world and a promise that he could. It was a structure built to close the gap between continents and prove that man dominated nature.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game

“Singapore held promise and mystery in its colonial homes, its perfumed gardens and dense jungles, its labyrinthine markets. The heat and humidity, the exoticism, the sheer energy of this tiny island in the South China Sea—it was literally and figuratively a world away from the shores of Seattle, where she’d grown up.”
― Barbara Nickless, The Drowning Game