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1 " The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote. "
― Gavin Lyall , The Most Dangerous Game
2 " Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. "
― Daniel Quinn , Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
3 " I think he won a tiny piece of my heart that day. If he didn't have the whole damn thing before then, he certainly had part of it now. "
― N.R. Walker , Spencer Cohen, Book Two (Spencer Cohen, #2)
4 " While a number of people have pointed out the various costs and drawbacks of sentience, few if any have taken the next step and wondered out loud if the whole damn thing isn't more trouble than it's worth. Of course it is, people assume; otherwise natural selection would have weeded it out long ago. And they're probably right. I hope they are. " Blindsight" is a thought experiment, a game of " Just suppose" and " What if" . Nothing more.On the other hand, the dodos and the Steller sea cows could have used exactly the same argument to prove their own superioirity, a thousand years ago: " if we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct?" Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The biggest boys on the block at any given time aren't necessarily the fittest, or the most efficient, and the game isn't over. The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death. And so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost. "
5 " Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me? "
― Daniel Suarez , Kill Decision
