Kieren

“I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

“Long before art and science and philosophy arose, consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition. In a submerged body starving for air, it’s difficult to imagine two imperatives more opposed than the need to breathe and the need to hold your breath. As one Prismatic told me, “Put yourself in one of those things, and tell me you aren’t more intensely conscious than you’ve ever been in your life.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

“Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead