Mickey7 Quotes

“I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“You are the Ship of Theseus. We all are. There is not a single living cell in my body that was alive and a part of me ten years ago, and the same is true for you. We’re constantly being rebuilt, one board at a time.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“It’s a truism that every new technological advancement in human history has been applied first to advance the interests of the horny. The printing press? Some Bibles, mostly porn. Antibiotics? Perfect for treating STIs.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“Apparently three hours of training lectures aren’t enough to overcome a billion years of ingrained instinct for self-preservation.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“And so, like bored young men throughout history, I spent an unfortunate amount of my time finding ways to get myself into trouble.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“THE NEXT TWO hours are weird. I don’t think I want to talk about them. Just to be clear, though: I regret nothing.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“The second area where every new technology is applied, of course, is war.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I was—I am—the sort of person who in an earlier age would have been a low-level academic of some sort. I would have read obscure books that I found in obscure archives, and written obscure papers that nobody would ever have read.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“We’re constantly being rebuilt, one board at a time. If you actually take on this job, you’ll probably be rebuilt all at once at some point, but at the end of the day, it’s really no different, is it? When an Expendable takes a trip to the tank, he’s just doing in one go what his body would naturally do over the course of time anyway. As long as memory is preserved, he hasn’t really died. He’s just undergone an unusually rapid remodeling.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“We can skip a breakdown in the antimatter containment unit,” she said. “That problem solves itself.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“The other me is already here, and despite all appearances, Eight is most definitely not a continuation of me. Honestly, he doesn’t even seem to like me very much.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I would have read obscure books that I found in obscure archives, and written obscure papers that nobody would ever have read.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I added up the benefits of having him in my life, deducted the annoyance of having to pay for everything anytime we went anywhere, and decided that on the balance, he was a net positive.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“That’s who he is. Everything’s easier if you can just accept that and move on.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“In order to make a leap like that, you have to either be running toward something great, or running away from something truly terrifying.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“You know," she says, "if you'd asked me before we left Midgard how I thought I was going to die, shoved down the corpse hole for sex crimes wouldn't have been at the top of my list.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“Here's a thought experiment for you: Imagine you found out that when you go to sleep at night, you don't just go to sleep. You die. You die, and someone else wakes up in your place the next morning. He's got all your memories. He's got all your hopes and dreams and fears and wishes. He thinks he's you, and all your friends and loved ones do too. he's not you, though, and you're not the guy who went to sleep the night before. You've only existed since this morning, and you will cease to exist when you close your eyes tonight. Ask yourself-would it make any practical difference in your life?”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“As it turns out, even waiting expectantly for a sudden, violent death gets boring after a while.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I don’t want to let this go just yet—but, lying sack of shit or not, he is more or less my best friend.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I’m not the most sensitive person, but I’ve been alive long enough to figure out that telling a miserable person about how much worse things could be is usually a bad idea.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“deep down, in my heart of hearts, I did not believe in immortality.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“After all, I'm him, and he was me. It's like mourning your reflection when you've broken a mirror.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I have to remind myself at this point that Eight is me, six week or so removed. How can I be so horrified at what he's saying?”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“I knew we wouldn't be able to keep this a secret forever, and I was terrified of what would happen when it came out. Now that it has, and I know more or less what's going to happen and when, I actually fell a little calmer.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“One of the price doctrines of the Natalist Church... is the belief in the sanctity of the unitary soul. They believe it's one soul to a body, and once your original body dies, your soul is dead as well.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“Isn't every scrap of known history is available to anyone at any time? So what, exactly, makes you more of a historian than me, for example?" - "I've actually bothered to access a lot of those scarps.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“if you don’t, we’re authorized to throw your next iteration into the chamber without any shots, and to keep doing that as many times as we need to until you get with the program.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“Point and click,” I say. “The targeting software does most of the work, and the size of the exit wound does the rest.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7