Made to Order Quotes

“One wants to ask what the hell his parents made him for--which, is you will recall, the central question of Frankenstein's monster. What the hell did you make me for, and why did you make me like this? To a failed experiment, the failure is unforgivable.”
― Sofia Samatar, Made to Order: Robots and Revolution

“Am I nothing more than the sum of the books I've read, the images I've shared, the links I've clicked and the videos I've posted? To know all of my digital emanations and penumbras is to know me; there is no there there, no impenetrable self beneath the feeds. I am as cobbled together as my idol, a parlor trick.”
― Ken Liu, Made to Order: Robots and Revolution

“Are we to understand, then, that every robot is female? Perhaps not; but every robot partakes, if only obliquely, of women's history, which is to say the history of the body without a soul, of error, lack, and the compensations of witchcraft and guile.”
― Sofia Samatar, Made to Order: Robots and Revolution