Harmony Quotes

“The instant the old folks had entered their codes and the Harmony program had begun to sing, suicide disappeared from human society. Nearly all battles ceased. The individual was no longer a unit. The entire social system was the unit. By losing its sense of self and self-awareness, society had been freed from the pain it suffered because its systems had relied on imperfect humans, arriving for the first time at a perfect bliss. I am a part of the system, as you are part of the system. No one felt any pain about that any longer. There was no “me” to feel pain. I had been replaced by a single...”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Isn´t it cool? Words, books, fiction all have the power to kill.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“For people living in fear, moderation just doesn't cut it. And most of the people in my world are fearful. It's like keeping a piggy bank when you never empty your wallet in the first place.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Seen from the outside, death was a very gradual process of cell decomposition. It took time. Death didn't happen in an instant.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“We were chasing after the perfect human but ended up killing consciousness, for it was no longer needed.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“The reality we can accept is limited to our consciousness, after all.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“People like rigid rules and prohibitions, you know. They make them for themselves and live in fear that, if they don't uphold the restrictions, then things will go back to the way they were -the dark ages,chaos.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Heidrich and Himmler tried to eliminate obesity among the SS, Professor Saeki said. Himmler's dream was that one day, all Germans would be vegetarians”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Reality and consciousness are the same.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“If you plot perceived value on a graph, with the horizontal axis as time and the present as zero, then you will see the line representing value curve sharply upward the closer it comes to the zero point, reaching its zenith as it hits the vertical axis. By comparison, value in the far future goes low quickly, changing hardly at all between a year and two years distant. A hyperbola. When humans and most living creatures consider the value of something, they tend to see its future value diminish hyperbolically. In other words, our system of evaluation isn't exponentioally logical, it's hyperbolically illogical.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“When you want some real solitude, dead-tree media's the only way to go. Then it's just the two of us. Me and the medium.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“We are just collections of DNA optimized for particular places and times.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“You are so filled with your faith that you must push it upon us as well. And this is why we fight.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“No one who waves a big flag is up to any good.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony