Zak

“Oh, for the time when I shall sleep ⁠without identity.
and never care how rain may steep,
⁠or snow may cover me –”
― Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems

“Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?”
― León Tolstói, War and Peace

“Gödel’s incompleteness theorems brought the second ending of the Grundlagenstreit. Where Hilbert had won the conflict in the social sense, he had lost it in the scientific sense.”
― Dirk van Dalen, L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life

“Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures — dozens, literally dozens of factors.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War #1