Mark O'Connell, To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, And The Futurists Solving The Modest Problem Of Death Quotes
The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.
This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.
This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.