“Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.”

“...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.”

“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.”

“I remember back when the only 'Google' was the sound a guy made when you punched him in the throat.”

“The difference between revolution and defiance is the difference between an overthrow of the existing order and one person's shaken fist. When the former isn't possible, you still have to hold on to the latter, if only so as to remember you're human.”

“We [human beings] are what happens when smart monkeys fuck.”