Terry Pratchett Quotes

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Under perfectly controlled conditions, man and every other organism behaves as it damn well pleases.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted 'Westworld' to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.

Human nature fascinates me.

I'm not a machine.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

What is a human-like droid that operates from a place of free will and has been designed to have a soul? That's fascinating stuff that you just can't quite comprehend quickly. It's not like playing a fireman with a wife and kid. You can gauge where that's going to go and what's going to happen, and you can talk to other people who have done it.

People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.