“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. And the vibrations.”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”
― Deep Secret
― Deep Secret
“You want to know how super-intelligent cyborgs might treat ordinary flesh-and-blood humans? Better start by investigating how humans treat their less intelligent animal cousins. It’s not a perfect analogy, of course, but it is the best archetype we can actually observe rather than just imagine.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
“A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!”
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev”
― Red Storm Rising
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev”
― Red Storm Rising
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