Irem Ergun

“The desperate brutality of men grasping for power is one of the universe’s great idiocies.”
― Stephanie Storey, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

“Taliban had found the paintings, Tariq said, they’d taken offense at the birds’ long, bare legs. After they’d tied the cousin’s feet and flogged his soles bloody, they had presented him with a choice: Either destroy the paintings or make the flamingos decent. So the cousin had picked up his brush and painted trousers on every last bird. “And there you have it. Islamic flamingos,”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The problem with refined grains is once again the processing, which basically “takes the life out” of the food. It strips out the nutrients and breaks down the food, making it more like an injection of glucose than something you need to digest.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits for Weight Loss: Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering.

“With tongue only slightly in cheek, we can view the typical practitioner as following Nike’s “Just Do It” mantra, while the theorist follows the “Just Define and Study It” mantra.”
― Michael Kearns, The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design