Wei Zang

“Men have an extraordinary, and perhaps fortunate, ability to tune out of their consciousness the most awesome future possibilities. The Roman farmer, ploughing the slopes of Vesuvius, gave no thought to the mountain smoking overhead. Half the twentieth century lived with the Hydrogen Bomb—”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise

“Judging from the past, we may safely infer that no one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity.’ - Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation Of
Favoured Race In The Struggle For Life (1859)”
― Stephen Baxter, Evolution

“An unstable, barely governable country presenting grave risk to the international system of corporate governance and exchange mechanisms” is what Central Banker Li called us when his ass had landed safely in Beijing.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“lacunae”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen