Mastermind Quotes

“We have our version. We even tell ourselves convincing little fictions that it’s okay to hate those other people because they’re the ones who are really filled with hate. We make ourselves judges.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world, not because they deliver your flat-screen television the next day, but because of their computer-services division, which runs the computer systems for half the internet. That’s what makes them powerful.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Zoo chimps, even the best-cared-for ones, can kill. Chimps at sanctuaries have cooperated to pull keepers into their enclosures to attack them.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Data centers are often located where power is the cheapest. If you ever look on satellite images, you’ll find them in some surprising locations. And some of them aren’t exactly public. There are a number of companies that run shadow colocation facilities in case of disasters or attacks,”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Being the first to file, make requisitions, and tell the chain of command what you’re doing is basically the Hogwarts magic of the FBI. If I say that I brought a person of interest in to interview and I ask a supervisor what questions they want answered, it basically commits them to approving the whole endeavor.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“She probably doesn’t think she can multitask well, but under pressure her bandwidth is enormous.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Medicine is conservative. Sometimes for the right reasons. Sometimes for the wrong reasons. We’ll let people die from a pandemic because we don’t want to give them a cure that might also kill them. It’s easier to deal with the repercussions of a death by natural causes than a death from an experimental procedure.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Nuclear is hard. A private individual could still pull it off, if they had enough resources.” “Really? Everyone I’ve talked to says you’d have to be a nation-state, and then we’d still know something was up.” “I think Bill Gates or Elon Musk could pull it off,” replies Theo. “Disguise it in plain sight as fusion research. The key would be keeping a lid on the people working for you. But you could have a hundred physicists and engineers working on compartmentalized projects while only a small team really knows what’s going on.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“If you want to do real damage, you don’t just break a thing, you destroy a system.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“When they finally were able to tag great whites with satellite trackers, they found the places where the big sharks were doing all those things. The feeding grounds should have been obvious, because that pattern was enmeshed in another creature’s pattern. In this case, great whites went to eat where seals went to give birth. A booming seal colony meant a great white buffet. When scientists found out where great whites gave birth, it turned out to be where they didn’t have to worry about being fished or killed by orcas when they were at their most vulnerable. “The lesson was: if you can’t discern one species’ pattern, look for the patterns of the other species it shares an ecosystem with.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Cow pastures exist because we need meat, not because of any clever social thinking on the cow’s behalf.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“If you were to ask me what’s broken in this world, I’d say it’s the amount of talent found in the places we ignore.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“The problem is that monsters rarely see themselves that way.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Jack leads us down a tree-lined path with enclosures on either side. Part of what makes Monkey Village special is that most of the property is used for the animals, with the humans funneled through caged corridors. At the very least, it gives the illusion that the animals can roam freely.”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“Another”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“gracile”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind

“high?”
― Andrew Mayne, Mastermind