"That sounded like a great plan, in that it didn’t involve me."

"They’re academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrea…"

"SecUnits don’t care about the news…mostly because the news was boring and I didn’t care what humans were doing to eac…"

"Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well."

"I am terrible at estimating human ages because it’s not one of the few things I care about. Also most of my experienc…"

"Humans are nervous of me because I’m a terrifying murderbot, and I’m nervous of them because they’re humans."

"Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my cre…"

"I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap."

"There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”"

"I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis."