Spy Night on Union Station Quotes

“Your electoral systems have always favored candidates who say what the people want to hear, and your great vice as a species is your ability to believe them.”
― E.M. Foner, Spy Night on Union Station

“nothing put her at ease more than being told she was right.”
― E.M. Foner, Spy Night on Union Station

“I’ve never been to Earth myself, but I know from the immersives that most planets have this weather thing, where you can be walking along outside, and then all of a sudden, you can drown or freeze to death.”
― E.M. Foner, Spy Night on Union Station

“You have to remember that common sense and sentience aren’t related. One of the reasons you don’t see more AIs than biologicals in the galaxy is that most of us are inherently unstable. You won’t read this in the textbooks, but taken as a group, artificial intelligences are usually flawed idealizations of the species that create us. Without millions of years of natural selection to sort out the useful characteristics from the destructive ones, we tend to have issues.”
― E.M. Foner, Spy Night on Union Station

“electoral systems have always favored candidates who say what the people want to hear, and your great vice as a species is your ability to believe them.”
― E.M. Foner, Spy Night on Union Station