mark of true intelligence is to be moved by statistics?

We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.

Though I am fake, they say, and nothing I do makes the least difference, still, I cross all distances to sit next to you in your mechanical bed, keep you company, and change your mind.

To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one,

“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”

“A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.”

which side will lose by winning.

A chorus of living wood sings to the woman: If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we’d drown you in meaning.

Or as the nurse to the Union dead writes: Stand cool and composed before a million universes