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