John

“The best job a concert pianist can get nowadays is trader for Citibank. It pays very well.”
― Gary Stevenson, The Trading Game: A Confession

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Civilisation has become synonymous with peace and progress, and wilderness with war and decline. In reality, for most of human existence, it was the other way around.”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

“In need of a Copernican revolution, we've been busy refining the Ptolemaic model of heavens.”
― Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay