Primer - The Pain of Discovery
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Primer - A Question about Eating Preferences
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Primer - Importance of Every Workday at Cortex Semi
Abe:
Do you have anything important going on at work today?
Aaron:
I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi.
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Primer - Unusual Consequences of the Machine
Abe: [Notices Aaron's ear is bleeding]
Whoa. You're bleeding.
Aaron:
I got it.
Aaron:
Is this normal? This isn't normal.
Abe:
For the machine?
Aaron: [Irritated]
No, for people! What you think, it's the machine?
Aaron:
All right, I got it!
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Primer - Understanding the Complexity of Time Travel
Abe:
I just want you to see it the way I saw it.
Aaron:
I am trying, okay, I really am here.
Abe:
Look, everything we're putting into that box becomes ungrounded, and I don't mean grounded like to the earth, I mean, not tethered. I mean, we're blocking whatever keeps it moving forward and so they flip-flop. Inside the box it's like a street - both ends are cul-de-sacs. I mean, this isn't frame dragging or wormhole magic, this is basic mechanics and heat 101.
Aaron:
This is not mechanics and heat.
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Primer - Miscommunication About Noises in the Attic
Kara:
Did you call pest control?
Aaron:
Babe, I'm telling you, they're birds. You don't want a bunch of dead baby birds up there. Do you?
Kara:
They don't sound like birds.
Aaron: [to Abe]
She thinks there are rats in the attic.
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Primer - The Quest for Perfection in Chaos
Aaron:
How many times would it take before he got it right? Three? Four? Twenty? I've decided to believe that only one more would have done it. I can almost sleep at night, if there's only one more. Slowly and methodically, he reverse-engineered a perfect moment. He took from his surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more. And once the details had been successfully navigated, there was nothing left to do but wait for the conflict. Maybe the obligatory, last minute moral debate until the noise of the room escalates into panic and background screams, as the gunman walks in. And eventually, he must have got it perfect, and it must have been beautiful with all the praise and adoration he had coming. He had probably saved lives, after all. Who knows what would have happened if he hadn't been there?
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Primer - The Nature of Innovation and Human Effort
Aaron: [narrating]
Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated. They were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. And there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment, they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new. Except maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more.
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Primer - Understanding Electrical Phenomena in Primer
Aaron:
That is no static shock.
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Primer - Paranoia vs. Awareness of Reality
Aaron:
What's worse, thinking you're being paranoid or knowing you should be?
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Primer - Struggling with Effort and Commitment
Aaron:
I am trying, okay, I really am here.
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Primer - A Question of Hunger
Aaron:
Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon.
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Primer - Discussion of Creating a Larger Device
Aaron:
You're talking about making a bigger one.
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