Shees Hassan

“You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of the continued information processing that makes up the dynamical evolution of the universe.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism