Rahul Jha

“Voltaire said about God that ‘There is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“When the offense has the advantage because of some combination of technological superiority or cost, military theorists write, there will be conflict. When the reverse is true, when it costs more to attack, or when the chances of an attack defeating the defenses is low, greater stability will prevail.”
― Richard A. Clarke, The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

“The old maxim “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” is therefore unfortunate. Adopt this mind-set, and you will be dead sooner and the quality of that (shorter) life will be worse.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“And one may choose what is contrary to one’s own interests and sometimes one positively ought… One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice, however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy… What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. – FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, “Notes from the Underground”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder