Platform Decay Quotes

“(Emotion check: Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“Of course not,” I said. And it probably sounded snappy, but it had been an effort not to say Fuck no, so I was counting it as a win.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“It’s weird how meal and sleep breaks fix a lot of the annoying things about humans. Maybe that’s how you restart an organic brain?”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“I really wanted to kill them but they were so whiney and screamy, it was hard to get started. I don’t like helpless humans in my media, but in reality, it’s … Provoking them hadn’t worked so I tried to be encouraging. “Maybe if you all run at me at once you could kill me.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“It was fine. I had dealt with Combat SecUnits before. Not, like, successfully, or anything, but still.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“I just don’t like it when humans die on me.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“I hate a lot of things, but I didn’t know I hated toruses until I got here.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“(Emotion check: Angry. It’s never a good idea to try to do complicated things when you’re angry. Like coding. Coding is complicated. Especially when people are shooting at you. But I do that all the time.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“(Emotion check: Apparently there is an easier way to do things”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“There was nothing I could do about it now, so I watched episode 487 of Sanctuary Moon and tried to pretend none of this was happening.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“You can just never tell what fucking humans are going to fucking do.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“Clear communication for the win, I guess.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“(I told Dr. Bharadwaj that, and she said, “Would you have ever coded that yourself?” which was totally unfair and also correct, I would never have done that.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“I want you to do whatever you have to to keep those motherless shits away from my daughter.” Fuck yes.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“Yes, getting one group of humans out and then going back for another go would be exponentially more risky for me and the chances that I would (a) fail, and (b) get dismantled and my parts redistributed in a corporate factory with my organic tissues melted and thrown away like so much garbage were high. (I didn’t want to look at those numbers but the pings from risk assessment were increasingly urgent.) (You know, I think I liked risk assessment better before I tried to fix it, when I knew for sure it was full of shit.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“Naja sent back an acknowledgment but didn’t tell me what she was planning to do, which, great. This is why working with humans is so exciting in the bad way.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“I picked her up and was going to tell her to put her arms around my neck and hold on”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“visual. But Target Null+1 bot was passing nearly beneath us. (At least it looked that way from our position on our shuttle. It could have actually been sideways or up or whatever, because space.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“Farai looked unhappy and Naja glared. Sofi clapped her hands. “We are going to steal a flyer!” “We aren’t, not really,” Farai admonished her. Yeah, we are totally stealing a flyer.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“I really wanted to kill them but they were so whiney and screamy”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“acknowledgment sigil”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

“Of course not,” I said. And it probably sounded snappy”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay