Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

We are not thinking machines.

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.