Quotes: 2018

…and all the fond nothings of daily life should clothe themselves in elemental sparks and shoot with fiery speed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, from hemisphere to hemisphere…

— A Thread Across The Ocean

Conquerers live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.

— The Stone Sky

If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.

— Sapiens

Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.

— Sapiens

So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modelled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed.

— Hidden Figures

They sat there in the evening of the last day. And, though there was no actual point to it, they loved each other.

— The Best Of Richard Matheson

Photographs are photons on flypaper.

— The Ursa Major Moving Group

Language is imperfect; poetry, perfectly imperfect.

— Time Travel

And since we are speculating, we’ll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.

— A Fire Upon The Deep