Neal Asher

Writer

1961-02-04

Quotes by Neal Asher

• Try to think like a human,' said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.—Why should I restrict myself so severely?

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• Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted— a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

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• It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.

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• Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called —pigheadedness'.

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• It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.

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• Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted— a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

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• It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.

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• Try to think like a human,' said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.—Why should I restrict myself so severely?

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• It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.

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• Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called —pigheadedness'.

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• When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.

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• If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

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• For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

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