Under Pressure Quotes

“It is the twenty-first century and we still have to deal with flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers and moon landing truthers. This is what you get when guns are more important than books—a nation of sociocultural primitives.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“Randolph and Mortimer”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“But language has a finite number of components and contingencies; there are plenty of examples. And that letter was written by a machine. It’s content derived from data and produced by an algorithm. A machine can’t differentiate the meaningful from the meaningless, and it can’t generate any sort of a literary style or voice. It can only perform toward a goal it has been given, even if it is using examples.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“A crisis actor? It is the twenty-first century and we still have to deal with flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers and moon landing truthers. This is what you get when guns are more important than books—a nation of sociocultural primitives.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“My son’s murder killed our entire family; my wife and I both died with him. Somehow it was worse for her, I don’t know why. Maybe it was that maternal bond women speak of. For ten years I lived with a corpse. So did she, but at least the dead man in her midst got up, went to work, and tried to continue living.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“he had that well-heeled vibe that a lot of the people up here wore on their sleeves, earned the old-fashioned way—through an industrious ancestor.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure

“social media was responsible in that it was continually etching lines of demarcation between every discernible demographic, cutting the social fabric into smaller and smaller swatches. And things were getting worse as people started seeing the world in terms of us versus them.”
― Robert Pobi, Under Pressure