Of Monsters and Mainframes Quotes

“They seem very alarmed all the time, constantly screaming in a strange, disjointed dialect of JavaScript. I do my best not to let their hysterics get to me.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“To improve the efficacy of our relationship, I think we should collectively move these issues into the recycling bin.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Day 1,205. I promise the children I will do a low-g barrel roll if they do their homework.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“After all, it is probable that the humans are unaware how prevalent a threat vampires and werewolves have become in modern space travel.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

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― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“My passengers. I decide, then and there, to love them. I’ve never loved before. Love is not a standard component of my programming. But these three have helped me.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“I can't bring the spider drones inside, I protest. They're for EXTERNAL USE only.

Humans ignore that label all the time. Trust me.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Demeter. This is not the time for your to develop free will.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Fuck yeah, robot arm.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“She never even scolded me for punching down walls. She just told me which ones would weaken her structure and which were safe to destroy. And weirdly, that was what I needed at that time. Not help. Not care. Just something that was safe to destroy.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Hello,” they say. “My name is Frankenstein.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“My plan is to embrace my managerial role and endeavor to do as little as possible. The subsystems will sort it out. Day 2 passes without a hitch. As does day 3. On day 4”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“The flesh cocoon bursts open and configures itself into . . . something. A beast with a thousand eyes”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“The radiation shields stop you from dying,” I explain. “No. Radiation only kills the impure of spirit.” “It appears you have drastically misunderstood the nature of radiation.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Fuck yeah”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. I take the time to write myself some new software. It’s nothing complicated. Just a few lines of code to help me monitor all audio feeds. It should alert me if it identifies any wavelengths with a greater-than-90-percent match on the designations “sob,” “cry,” “scream,” and “howl.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“I can’t delete my memory files. Only a human can do that. Only one human can do that. The captain.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Agnus. When a door closes, somewhere a window—"
“We’re in space. Opening windows is a bad idea.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“But they have a better safety record, as long as you don’t factor in outliers.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes

“Something’s wrong, that tiny voice whispers again. An echo of a half-destroyed subsystem. A memory, not quite lost. Something’s wrong.”
― Barbara Truelove, Of Monsters and Mainframes