“Nous avons créé (surtout nos ancêstres) des systèmes gigantesques et monstreux qui sont devenus indispensables au maintain des conditions de vie de milliards de personnes.”
― Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
― Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
“Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.”
― Harvest
― Harvest
“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
― Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία
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