Victoria

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
― Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

“This is why Kutuzov’s best advice before the battle was to get a good night’s sleep: immediate attentiveness to unfolding possibilities was going to be more valuable than forward planning.11”
― Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History

“There’s nothing worse than the virus of politics. Especially when it infects someone without the antibodies to combat it.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin

“We didn’t describe the Soviet Union. It was about our own smooth, seamless, algorithm-driven world, the global matrix presently under construction, and the total inadequacy of our primitive brains to deal with it. Zamyatin was an oracle. He was not just speaking to Stalin, he was targeting all the dictators waiting in the wings, the oligarchs of Silicon Valley as well as the mandarins of China’s single political party.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin