All These Worlds Quotes
"This has been an amazing journey. A hobby that started out as a dare has now turned into a career."
"I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?" - Herman Melville
"If I had been nervous before, I was terrified now."
"Then the animal ran into the spear points. Still not breeding for intelligence, apparently."
"The other hunters started the Giving-Thanks chant."
"Tell you what, Fred," I answered. "Why don’t you bend way over, stick your head up your own butthole, and keep pushing until you disappear completely."
"We lost and now a billion sentients are going to die!"
"Still not convinced, Marcus?" Kal cocked his head at me in the video window.
"Being immortal apparently put a different spin on things."
"I knew myself well enough to realize that I could walk right off a cliff when I got into this mode."
"Fred was truly evidence that jerks came in all shapes, sizes, and species."
"I doubted I could just coldly cut someone’s throat, but how to explain that twenty-first-century sensibility to stone-age beings?"
"We know it’s not just Fred. He may be taking to it with enthusiasm, but there’s more to this."
"I’m not sure he’s going to be entirely rational where the Others are concerned."
"This was my first time in an android, and I was nervous."
"I hope that wasn’t a trend. Sadly, with ephemerals, it probably was."
"I’m not really sure to what extent we need them. With the dome, this is completely climate-controlled."
"I guess that’s the whole point! But it’s the same problem: how do we keep working with a government that we believe is wrong on a basic moral level?"
"I don’t think very many people will ever choose replication."
"There’s no aspect of we’re all in this together."
"And the larger moon of the outer planet was habitable. Marginally."
"We have a third of the planet’s population, but we produce half the food calories."
"Or start it up. Even Mario hasn’t really left the area."
"It takes a certain type of person to want to rule."
"I grew up in Minnesota; had sisters and parents, went to school, and so on."
"People need to see you as just another person."
"She still looked like Andrea, like Andrea would have looked had I been alive to see her as a grandmother."
"Infinite sadness washing over me. People keep leaving…"
"We’re not blowing things up, or going on strike, or burning down the Bastille."
"People will continue to do their jobs, they’ll continue to produce food, perform manufacturing, whatever."
"We’re supposed to start over, without all the former prehistoric bullshit."
"We keep going over the numbers. It doesn’t get any better with repetition."
"As the drone flew up to my location in orbit, I played the video records again and again."
"Bridget would love this. No biologist could possibly resist."
"My God, Howard. And you have forever to study them…"
"This is a very limited interface, of course. You can’t fully interact—although you can pick up objects or feel me holding your hands—and you can move around using the game interface."
"I felt a moment of pleasure that our user interface was so obviously intuitive."
"You have a nice world here, Howard. But when I go back to the other one, I’ve still got gray hair."
"The Others had just finished ‘harvesting’ the Pav homeworld, and several years of observing their technique hadn’t blunted the emotional turmoil."
"The battle resembled, no kidding, one of those old Errol Flynn swordfight melee scenes, as long as you imagined giant spiders instead of actors in tights."
"It’s not a fusion-based. But it’s definitely the power-generation facility."
"This wasn’t really about the Odin native life."
"I wrapped her in a hug, and everything else stopped mattering."
"But Neil wasn’t necessarily wrong. I hoped I hadn’t just taken the first steps toward kissing my ass goodbye."
"Like the Others weren’t enough of a headache."
"We just need to knock off busters faster than he can make them."
"And if we don’t, they’ll start shooting down cities in twenty-four hours."
"Blowing Marcus up can’t really be misinterpreted."
"I still don’t know where all their assets are. I want to take everything out cleanly in one strike. And I don’t want to have to kill anyone."
"Particle-weapon turrets, courtesy of Bill’s Skunk Works, activated immediately and attempted to shoot the missiles out of the sky."
"The basic cargo-ship design doesn’t have a lot of room for weapons storage and launchers."
"But they did have the effect of splitting the attention of the missile AMIs."
"It will just continue to escalate, and more and more people will die."
"If something had gone wrong and taken you out, we’d never have known about it."
"You could misplace fourteen million people in that thing."
"People still behaved the same in elevators as they did in Original Bob’s day."
"And then we’re gonna vote you out on your ear."
"Every last one. We will obviously still have to build stasis pods."
"Good news, they have all the material they could possibly need. Bad news, with relativistic time dilation, they’ll only have three and a half years to work with."
"I’d rather have the question asked and answered."
"Whether it’s lack of printers to build everything, or lack of sufficient material, or lack of drones and roamers to assemble the parts into the end product—it’s always something."
"I’d like to get that number up to a round million."
"I’ve calculated that we can move about three hundred thousand people at a time."
"Ignoring for the moment the fact that it was your mother’s decision, you still have her."
"Why don’t you have an AMI set up to monitor this stuff? It’s a freakin’ rote task, dude!"
"So, you’re doing things the hard way, because you’re too lazy to figure out how to do them the easy way?"
"Original Bridget is dead. You are very much alive."
"It’s important to get an image of yourself as a unique person, Bridge."
"I’m just thinking about a new career. Oceanography."
"I wonder how an android dolphin would fare on this world."
"I might still have a panic attack at some point, but then maybe not."
"Just remember you can still feel my wrath, wise guy."
"Right now, I can’t understand how you could be related to them."
"Anyway, Mr. Johansson, they’ve used up all their ammunition, and we’ve used up all of ours."
"I have to admit, I love that you didn’t include runny noses in the VR world."
"They’ve thrown everything but the kitchen sink at us."
"I’ve got an idea for getting the flint teaching thing going."
"Then we have to figure out how to offer them without getting killed."
"So, either he took two trips, or he had help, or he’s building them locally."
"Oh, that would be bad. Then he could be in this system, and we’d have to hit him with a focused pulse to even have a hope of detecting him."
"Look, Neil, we do our manufacturing out in space, because we don’t give a crap and it’s convenient."
"I had earned a reputation as an accurate forecaster of weather, crediting aches in my bones for being able to feel the change."
"My bones tell me it’ll clear up around noon."
"We can move about three hundred thousand people at a time."
"It’s not as simple as just making more printers to enjoy the benefits of exponential growth."
"It’s not out of the question that we might end up having to hide human colonies in gas giants, to avoid getting wiped out."
"The problem is that, no matter what course you navigate, there is always a bottleneck."
"That by itself is worth the price of admission."
"There’s nothing on this planet big enough or mean enough to give you trouble."
"Just the same, you won’t get her. I’ve made sure of that."
"I’m willing to throw myself on the mercy of the court for my transgression."
"Technology continued to advance in Camelot, and people's lives continued to improve. It was a good legacy to leave behind."
"Humans are an unexploited niche, I guess. I'm sure some of these beasties didn't exist at all ten years ago."
"We have just a bit under eight million working stasis pods, waiting for passengers."
"It's been a most interesting, and a very good life. But I think I'm done."
"I hadn’t actually discussed that particular issue in public. I had a private conversation with a few representatives. We agreed that there is no scenario that doesn’t end with a lot of fear and anger, so we’re putting that off as long as possible."
"We’re building new Bobs so fast, these days. What’re we up to, like five hundred of us?"
"I think it was your mother’s death that really got to me. People die. And I remember each and every one, as clear as the day it happened."
"I don’t think so." Bill scrubbed his face with his hands, then looked at me with a weary expression. "There’ll be a moot. We want to give people time to get organized."
"It's been great having you around for all these years. It's been a most interesting, and a very good life. But I think I'm done."