Hubert Fernandes

“It was an animal failure not to imagine a moment beyond the present,”
― Brian Staveley, The Empire's Ruin

“There’s a strange contradiction revealed by the naïveté and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“For all you know, the year might be 2216 and you are a bored teenager immersed inside a ‘virtual world’ game that simulates the primitive and exciting world of the early twenty-first century. Once you acknowledge the mere feasibility of this scenario, mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.”
― 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