Zak

“it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“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

“Los Angeles will not, of course, collapse. Rather, it will stagger on with higher body counts and greater distress, through a chain of more frequent and destructive encounters with disasters of all sorts. Southern California’s golden age forever will be superseded. It is not simply its conjugation of earthquakes, wildfires, and floods, but it’s uniquely explosive mixture of natural hazards and social contradictions.”
― Mike Davis