Jeff King

“the scientific revolution was launched by the discovery of ignorance.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“They were about a foot tall, and something about their matching size and identical bandit masks, coupled with their misjudgment of aspens as an escape route, gave me a sense of real glee at the originality of things.”
― Thomas McGuane, The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“it’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick