Pregaming 5: Quotes

Bola

• Games are little religions, they tell you what to care about, they give you goals, they change your behavior. Religions are big games.
• All stories are fiction.

Giles

• It doesn't matter. That doesn't mean it doesn't matter to me.
• There are lots of people in your head, only a few of them care about making sense.
• The emperor's court doesn't always get along.

Emile

• Technology is Biology.
• There was no biotech revolution. Just a bunch of engineers stealing ideas from a very old evolutionary algorithm - we've been calling it life.
• A business is no more a person than a person is a cell. They are animals made of men, and they act like it.
• Look, your little monkey brain just has to get over this: for a million years it's been optimizing for a tiny skull and a big ass social life. For a hundred thousand generations the most important thing in their world was love and hate and belonging. Your brain defaults to stupid social relationships not because they're accurate, but because your brain's a tiny little weak thing and only so many rules fit inside, but the world's not like that. Your computer doesn't hate you. It breaks because it breaks, get over it.

Nell

• A government is just a business with a local monopoly on violence. 
• They're like restaurants, come for the violence, stay for the ambiance.

King Smith

• They never learned the first lesson of the real world - you only own what cannot be taken from you. Our only true possessions are our actions.
• Indecision is a vice.
• Weakness is faith in what you wish were true.
• Everything is optional; even survival isn't mandatory.
• All cultures are equal, unless killing babies is a bad thing.
• There only two options in life: you belong to it, or it belongs to you. There is no third option, no middle ground.
• Daring is the greatest virtue.
• There are monsters and there are failures and it is possible that you are both.
• Nature doesn't care how many of us want something to be true.
• The greatest sin is weakness.
• There is no "should". A thing is or it is not. "Should" is a desire you pretend to share with nature, and nature desires nothing.