Paul McAuley Quotes

Listen: I'm Not Going To Tell You What To Do. We Cannot Make Decisions For You. We Came To Help, But We Do Not Want To Interfere. We Gave You A Gift, Yours To Do With As You Will. But You've Heard All That Before. We're Happy To Talk. To Answer Questions About Why We Don't Stop War And Suffering, Cure Cancer, End Poverty, Point The Way To Heaven Or Point Out That There Is No Heaven. Ask Us Anything. We Don't Mind. We Try Our Best To Be Candid, But There Is An Inevitable Degree Of Mutual Incomprehension. Because Your Qualia Aren't Our Qualia. Because We're Running Models Of Who You Think You Are And What You Think You Know, But They're Just Models. Because The Map Isn't The Territory. Because We Aren't Gods. We Aren't Even Close. You Know? At Best, We're Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn. Who Have Come To This Little Blue Planet To Help.

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