Wells – Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries)

Book page: wells-artificial-condition-murderbot

From: Quotes batch 26

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Concept

“The concept of ‘friendship’ is a vulnerability I never asked for, a glitch in my system that makes me take irrational risks for humans.” (p. 34)

Behavior

“When the combat starts, my behavior shifts from ‘awkward security unit’ to ‘high-speed death machine’ before I even realize I’ve moved.” (p. 110)

Game Theory

“Infiltrating a corporate facility is a game of probability; you don’t need to be invisible, you just need to be less interesting than the background noise.” (p. 75)

Cognition

“Multitasking during a fire-fight requires me to partition my cognition so one part can hack the door while the other shoots the guards.” (p. 156)

Memory

“I don’t want to be a person, but I can’t stop building a memory of experiences that only a person would care about.” (p. 192)