Gene Ishchuk

“From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves.”
― Mustafa Suleyman, The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future

“To cover their tracks even further, the boomers have stuffed their heirs with sufficient pseudo-knowledge to make them feel as if they know enough about the past to judge themselves superior to it.”
― Helen Andrews, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

“Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.”
― James Dyson, Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure

“She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram