Hubert Fernandes

“For the average American or European, Coca-Cola poses a far deadlier threat than al-Qaeda.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“There is room to improve, but the most important thing is that you are alive. The dead, after all, face grave impediments in the bettering of their skills.”
― Brian Staveley, The Empire's Ruin

“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

“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