Anja

“So we’re the monster police, too?” I said to Tom.
“Correct,” he replied. “The only real question is, who are the monsters?”
“They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It’s an actual trope.”
“I know,” Tom said. “What does it say about us that it’s relevant every single time they ask it?”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

“People have asked me over the years, ‘If you could choose another century to live in, which would it be?’ ‘Too general,’ I have replied. ‘What gender, what age, what country, what social class? A princess of the nobility or a ditch-digger?’ I had little doubt, that without the Age of Print, I’d have been scrubbing floors.”
― Margaret Atwood, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

“Historians observe the world, and scientists try to explain it, but engineers transform it. Step by step, they’ve replaced village matchmakers with dating apps, town criers with social media, local doctors with diagnostic tools. The time has come for sages, mystics, and prophets to cede to an AI. In this way, history marches on.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Horizon