Andrew Gerber

“And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson

“He compared the trial to Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Pit and the Pendulum.” “Human nerves,” he wrote, “even the strongest, have a limited capacity to endure moral torture.”
― Joshua Rubenstein, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life

“Ignoring differences is a central feature of categorization. To categorize is to stereotype. When a color is uncategorizable, however, the opposite of stereotyping occurs. Rather than lumping together all the different colors, you appreciate all the little differences. Because our skin color cannot be categorized, we are better able to see very minor deviations in skin color, and therefore register minor changes in others’ skin color as they occur.”
― Mark Changizi, The Vision Resolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision