Drabi

“And from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid. Even”
― Peter Watts, Firefall

“There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn’t diminish the point of the exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.)”
― Peter Watts, Firefall

“Parentage is a dicey business,’ he said. ‘They stand like mountains when you are young, and diminish with each year until you are on an eye-line with their peak, a long slide from idol to idiot.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, Infernal Machines

“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before