Quotes from Lobsang
‘Generally speaking,’ Lobsang pronounced, ‘reality having little sense of narrative, ancient sites are not heavy with swinging blades that decapitate, or rock panels that fold back to fire darts. It’s rather a shame isn’t it?’ (LE)
‘A surfeit of wonders will dull the mind.’ (LE)
‘Not every action carries symbolic freight.’
‘Every human action does.’ (LE)
‘But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceedingly slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.’ (LE)
'Cahoots.' He repeated the word, forming the syllables with exaggerated motion of his lips. 'Lovely word, that. The kind of word that's necessary to use, purely for the pleasure of saying it.' (LW)
'The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.' (LW)
'... sapience implies purpose.' (LW)
… Lobsang was trying to apprehend the whole world, the whole universe and trying to understand the role of the human race in that universe.
Despite all that, Lobsang appeared to be sane …. (LM)
‘We spent nine years training to be pioneers. We should have just downloaded a barn-dancing application.’ (LU)
‘You could have helped.’
I’m helping by not helping.’
‘You’re the one with experience of these creatures.’
Children, Lobsang. They’re called children.’ (LU)
‘A surfeit of wonders will dull the mind.’ (LE)
‘Not every action carries symbolic freight.’
‘Every human action does.’ (LE)
‘But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceedingly slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.’ (LE)
'Cahoots.' He repeated the word, forming the syllables with exaggerated motion of his lips. 'Lovely word, that. The kind of word that's necessary to use, purely for the pleasure of saying it.' (LW)
'The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.' (LW)
'... sapience implies purpose.' (LW)
… Lobsang was trying to apprehend the whole world, the whole universe and trying to understand the role of the human race in that universe.
Despite all that, Lobsang appeared to be sane …. (LM)
‘We spent nine years training to be pioneers. We should have just downloaded a barn-dancing application.’ (LU)
‘You could have helped.’
I’m helping by not helping.’
‘You’re the one with experience of these creatures.’
Children, Lobsang. They’re called children.’ (LU)
