Aditya

“An author doesn’t have the moral right to violate truth and take refuge in the claim that he/she is only a creative artist. The reader, too, shares equal responsibility with the author in the quest for truth. He or she must comprehend the characters and situations in the light of objective truth—both factual and artistic. This sort of mental framework helps to actually savour the experience of reading a literary work, rather than getting agitated by reading it with personal prejudices in mind.”
― S.L. Bhyrappa, Aavarana: The Veil

“This has the effect of forcing marketplaces to compete in latency. You end up with exactly what you have now—people spending millions (billions?) of dollars to save milliseconds (microseconds soon?). What an expensive and needless mess. You could probably find a cure for cancer in a year if you just reassigned all the smart people who are now working on this artificially created and otherwise useless problem.”
― Scott Patterson, Dark Pools: The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street

“Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated— is its ability to give you control over your time.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money