“No, we’re going to provide them with a valuable life lesson.” “Don’t trust strangers?” I suggested.

Robert Kroese, The Chicolini Incident: A Rex Nihilo Adventure

Hermetic quote Kroese Chicolini lesson

Consider also:

  1. “Humans don’t like robots who can outsmart them, so my creators implanted an override circuit in my brain that automatically reboots me whenever I have an original thought.”
  2. “the fact was that she’d fallen back into a life of crime without meaning to—and the worst sort of crime, at that: the low-paying kind.”
  3. Starship Grifters
  4. The Yanthus Prime Job
  5. “While most entertainment offers little genuine entertainment value and is mostly designed for the absorption of our life force and time, all forms of story telling offer a moral lesson and cosmological view whether we realize it or not.”