Pump Six and Other Stories Quotes

“Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories

“Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. Carelessness and convenient solutions lead to chaos.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six

“Lately, he'd been looking at Starbucks baristas and wishing he had their jobs. Tall, grande, latte, cappuccino, skinny, whatever. Not much complexity there. And when you left work at the end of the day you didn't have to think about a fucking thing. Who cared if they made shit for money? At least they wouldn't have to pay much in tax.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six

“The men who'd built the machines had built them to last, but enough tiny knives can still kill a big old dinosaur, and this one was beyond dead.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories