Hubert Fernandes

“when a landlord, a weaver, or a shoemaker has greater profits than he needs to maintain his own family, he uses the surplus to employ more assistants, in order to further increase his profits. The more profits he has, the more assistants he can employ. It follows that an increase in the profits of private entrepreneurs is the basis for the increase in collective wealth and prosperity.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Twenty thousand years ago, the average Sapiens probably had higher intelligence and better toolmaking skills than the average Sapiens of today. Modern schools and employers may test our aptitudes from time to time but, no matter how badly we do, the welfare state always guarantees our basic needs. In the Stone Age natural selection tested you every single moment of every single day, and if you flunked any of its numerous tests you were pushing up the daisies in no time.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“It was dark back there,” she said. “Dark,” Mouse said mournfully. She nodded. “Dark as fuck.” “As a simile,” Stupid opined, “I’m not sure that makes sense.”
― Brian Staveley, The Empire's Ruin

“Life is an unwinnable fight, Gwenna Sharpe. If ends are all that matter, then we are all fools and failures.”
― Brian Staveley, The Empire's Ruin