# Quote — Charles Stross, Singularity Sky

> “I Critic am. Critics follow Festival for many lifetimes. We come to Criticize. First want I to know, am I Criticizing sapients? Or is just puppet show on cave wall of reality? Zombies or zimboes? Shadows of mind? Amusements for Eschaton?
>
> A shiver ran up and down Burya’s spine. “I think I’m sapient,” he said cautiously. “Of course, I’d say that even if I wasn’t, wouldn’t I? Your question is unanswerable. So why ask it?”
>
> Sister Seventh leaned forward. “None of your people ask anything,” she hissed. “Food, yes. Guns, yes. Wisdom? No. Am beginning think you not aware of selves, ask nothing.”

- Author: [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md)
- Book: [Singularity Sky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky.md)
- Page: 143
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Singularity_Sky_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/i-critic-am-critics

## More from this book

> Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/intelligence-and-infinite.md)

> “Hello, Martin. What can I do for you?”
>
> “Got a problem.”
>
> “A big one?”
>
> “Female human-sized.”

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/hello-martin-what.md)

> “Will you stop calling me a child!”
>
> Rachel hunched around in her chair and stared at him. “But you are, you know. Even if you were sixty years old, you’d still be a child to me. As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you’re a child. You could fuck your way through every brothel in New Prague, and you’d still be an overgrown schoolboy.” She looked at him sadly. “What would you call a parent who never let their children grow up? That’s what we think of your government.”

p. 299 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/will-you-stop.md)