Rose

“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”
― Alex Haley

“Sometimes the truth is stupid.”
― Roger Williams, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

“The lesson of every extinction, says the Smithsonian’s Doug Erwin, is that we can’t predict what the world will be 5 million years later by looking at the survivors.

"There will be plenty of surprises. Let’s face it: who would’ve predicted the existence of turtles? Who would ever have imagined that an organism would essentially turn itself inside out, pulling its shoulder girdle inside its ribs to form a carapace? If turtles didn’t exist, no vertebrate biologist would’ve suggested that anything would do that: he’d have been laughed out of town. The only real prediction you can make is that life will go on. And that it will be interesting.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.”
― Why The Lucky Stiff