The Stories of Ibis Quotes

“Death comes when memories are lost.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Where did this baseless fear that robots would attack humans come from? Why were there so many stories about robots and humans fighting? Did they only exist because that was how mankind had always lived? Did we simply see ourselves in these humanoid machines? Were we not simply afraid of our own reflections?”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“falling in love, getting married, having kids… it works for some people. But there’s no reason you have to live like that. Choosing one life means abandoning the possibility of living another way. If I were to give up on this adventure and get married and raise a family instead, I could still be reasonably happy. But I also think I would reflect back on the road not taken, and cry about it too.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“You believe that some people have dementia and some people do not, but that is not correct. All people have dementia—some are simply in worse condition than others. After all, most people with dementia are unaware that anything is wrong with them.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“It is easy to disappoint humans. It is easy to irritate them. It is easy to make them mad. None of that is at all challenging. So we take no pleasure from it. But making people happy is different. That is extremely difficult.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Truly intelligent beings do not drop bombs on innocent civilians.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Human thoughts are digital. Most people see things as 0 or 1, as black or white. They see nothing in between. All chemicals are dangerous. You are either friend or foe. If you aren’t left-wing, you’re right. If you aren’t conservative, you’re liberal. Everything that great man says must be true. Everyone who thinks differently from us is evil. Everyone in that country—even the babies—is evil.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“The only things that move their hearts are tragedies that affect them personally or affect people close to them.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“If people from their own country are killed, they may express surprise, grief, anger, and sympathy. But if ten thousand people are killed in a distant, far-off land, they will not be the slightest bit affected, particularly if it was their own doing.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“But sometimes he’s right. ‘Nothing happens if you just dream,’ he said. ‘You need the motivation to make your dreams reality.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“There isn’t a way for you to come to our world. Even if you could, there isn’t anything you can do. What’s destroying our world isn’t the devil or an asteroid. It’s an influenza virus, one synthesized by scientists. An airborne virus with a fatality rate”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Life is like a black hole. You don’t know what lies ahead. You can’t ever turn back. All you can do is move forward.” Suddenly, she breaks into laughter.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Ah, Asimov’s Laws of Robotics: ‘A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.’ ‘A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.’ Etcetera. Empty words really. Having a will of your own essentially implies an existence that surpasses your own programming.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“If I were afraid of getting hurt, nothing would change. Ibis”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not talk and looks nothing like them, why can they not love one another? Certainly,”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“The only things that move their hearts are tragedies that affect them personally or affect people close to them. Only then do people become aware of problems they have had all along. —Excerpt”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“That’s not true. People are more affected by true stories than they are fiction. You said so yourself.” “What I said was that people have a tendency to call whatever moves them ‘the truth.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“You don’t want to be human?” “If behaving in a manner bereft of logic and morals that leads to conflict is a fundamental attribute of humanity, then I do not want to be human.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Different people lead different lives. Meeting a great guy, falling in love, getting married, having kids… it works for some people. But there’s no reason you have to live like that. Choosing one life means abandoning the possibility of living another way.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“What power would such hollow words have against the hard wall of reality?”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do is move forward.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis

“There are no heroes in our world. No clear-cut evil either. Everyone involved insists that they’re the righteous ones.”
― Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis