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141 " 1) CodeBundle.LockItDown had closed all the hatches on board except those directly between SecUnit 3’s position and the shuttle access. 2) CodeBundle.FuckThem had fried all targetDrones. 3) CodeBundle.FuckThisToo had cut the connections between the solid-state screen device and the humans’ implants. Oh, and I shut down life support on the bridge so the Targets in there would be thinking about other things besides restarting their screen. "
― Martha Wells , Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
142 " The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you. "
143 " My clients are the best clients. "
― Martha Wells , All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
144 " How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second by second basis, I still have no idea "
― Martha Wells , Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
145 " I try to avoid asking humans if there’s anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don’t care.) "
146 " But I couldn’t ignore it. I mean, I guess I couldn’t. Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you. "
147 " The full station threat assessment for murder was sitting at a baseline 7 percent. (To make it drop lower than that we’d have to be on an uninhabited planet.) (I’ve never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we’d be inhabiting it.) "
― Martha Wells , Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
148 " Also, if I’m not in the armor then it’s because I’m wounded and one of my organic parts may fall off and plop on the floor at any moment and no one wants to see that. "
149 " I knew interpreting the emotional subtext in the speech and apperance of real humans was completely different from interpreting it in shows and serials. (For one thing, the shows and serials were trying to communicate with the viewer. As far as I could tell, real humans usually didn't know what the hell they were doing.) "
150 " The humans hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying. "
151 " Oh shit, my media!...No, wait, I had access to some of it. "
152 " I had cleaned off all the blood and fluid with the hygiene unit but was too angry to take a shower. (Showers are nice and I wanted to stay angry.) "
153 " Nobody fucking listens to me. "
154 " I don’t want to not see you again. "
155 " I wasn’t going to let him hurt me.” I said, “If I thought he was going to hurt you, I’d be disposing of his body. I don’t fuck around, either. "
156 " That’s the other problem with human security: they’re allowed to give up. "
― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
157 " This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn’t help. "
― Martha Wells , Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
158 " I am going to have to stop scaring the shit out of myself. "
159 " I yelled, “No!” which I’m not supposed to do; I’m always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they’re about to accidentally commit suicide. "
160 " When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects. "