Zer0 Quotes

All under the pretense of military application.” He pouts. “No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it’s changed our culture.

In the past I cared about a lot of things, but then I became wise.

That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.

We'll talk more about this next time we see each other.

Love is a trap!

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Paradise is precarious. Just one little thing …” He mimes a little shove. “Can push it into imbalance. It didn’t take much to screw up the Garden of Eden.

The future is a door.

That was a pretty good laptop, but Reagan's glad to lose it. Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the search for sweet lulz

He - and Cal - prefer a more generalized outlook on the End Times, recognizing it could come from anything: superstorms, polar shifts, invasion by the Chinese, attack by the U.S. government on its own people, aliens, EMP, God's wrath on a sin-filled world, killer bees. (Chance notes that no one mentions "Rogue AI with a penchant for Greek mythology." He figures someone should update their menu, because it is riding to number one on the charts with a bullet.)

Why … wouldn’t I? People are people. You ever … look at a YouTube comments section? You’d … want everyone dead … too.

At the heart of this shift was the realization that information is a core property of the universe. It can be encoded in a binary format and is, in the form of DNA, at the core of how life operates. Strings of ones and zer0s, or the base pairs of DNA—these are not just mathematical curiosities. They are foundational and powerful. Understand and control these streams of information and you might steadily open a new world of possibility. First bits and then increasingly genes supplanted atoms as the building blocks of invention.