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21 " The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor.” The production of human/bot constructs is just a more horrific twist, a mental slavery as well as a physical one. At least victims of contract labor are free to think their own thoughts. But we tell ourselves that constructs aren’t aware of their predicament. What SecUnit makes us realize is that this is not true; they are all aware of what they are and what’s been done to them. But the only choice they are ever offered is obedience or pain and death. "
― Martha Wells , Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
22 " I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats. "
― Martha Wells , Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
23 " I was having an emotion, and I hate that. "
― Martha Wells , Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
24 " So the plan wasn't a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing. "
25 " ART said, "I want an apology."I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.)ART said, "That was unnecessary."In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, "Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now. "
26 " Ugh, emotions. "
27 " But they were humans— who knows why they did anything? "
28 " There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all “but what if it takes over the station’s systems and kills everybody” and Pin-Lee told them “if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now,” which in hindsight was probably not the best response. "
― Martha Wells , Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
29 " Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order? "
30 " Unidentified One sounded even more amused. “You had better have the weapon we were told of, or I’ll take your ribs out one by one and break them in front of your little face.”I saved that for future reference. Unidentified One seemed to have gone to some trouble with the wording of that threat, it would be a shame if they never experienced it firsthand. "
31 " Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract. "
32 " I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right. "
― Martha Wells , Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
33 " Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy. "
― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
34 " I had a stab wound so large you could see the metal of my interior structure, but Senior Indah was too polite to mention it. The medical bot extended a delicate sensor limb toward me. On the feed I told it anything that touched me would get torn off and thrown across the room. It pulled the limb back and used it to check Hostile Two instead. "
35 " Now that I knew something was hacking the security cameras to watch me, I could use countermeasures. I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot. "
36 " It's usually a good idea to warn bot/human constructs who call themselves Murderbot before making grabby hands. "
37 " 2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case...In this case, yeah. "
38 " Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like." (I said, "It takes one to know one.") "
39 " I didn't need as much air as humans did, but I needed some, and it was really cold out there, in the colony ship's shadow. This meant that if the life-tender failed it would take me longer to die so I'd have longer to feel dumb about it than a human would. "
40 " Why is this ship so old and shitty? "