Charlie Jane Anders

You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

I am unflappable,” Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he’d thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.

We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.