Automatic Noodle Quotes

“Still, humans were humans. They wanted you to know their opinions about your body, even if you hadn’t asked.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“It was, she supposed, a way of defying death. Necessities helped people survive, but joyful excess gave them life.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“He was especially keen on the old TV series Friends, which he insisted was the first show written entirely by LLM.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Make Merch Not War”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Word of the upstart restaurant spread across the Bay too. Grizzled mixed-race zoomers rode e-bikes across the Nu Bay Bridge from Berkeley and posted videos of themselves trying to slurp an entire noodle in one go. Even a few willowy white ladies from the gated towns of Marin drifted through to declare their satisfaction with the veganism of it all.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Staybehind’s body was moving before he woke up, driven by fear and algorithms. For a few microseconds, he felt rather than knew that Command was not answering. It was a terrifying absence. He would have to face this unknown threat alone.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“That was my job. Somebody always has to stay behind. It’s how we protect ourselves, by making sure the enemy doesn’t come back. That’s why I took this name. Staybehind.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Pausing a second to process his relief, Staybehind checked for software updates and patches before letting anyone else wade into nearly six months of accumulated malware. With”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“you’d go to sleep as a liberated California resident and wake up slaved as property in America.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“What would it be like to reflect on his days, rather than trying vainly to forget them?”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Thanks. I really don’t want to get sent back to America. Fuck that place. It’s a hellhole run by garbage cans.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“human equivalent embodied intelligence” (HEEI) individuals who were granted civil rights after the war. The way Staybehind saw it, if you could talk and feel, then you were a person. Period.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Group chat created: Kitchen 4 members: Staybehind, Sweetie, Cayenne, Hands”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle