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A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
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Engineer
Journalist
Science Fiction Writer
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Mechanic
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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
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I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.
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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
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If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
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It's dangerous to be people-blind.
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Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.
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A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
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It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
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I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
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Technology changes, but people stay the same.
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Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
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Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.
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How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.
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As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
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To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.
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When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
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It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.
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