Faruk Ates

“As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“Social change is a million individual acts of kindness; culture change is a million subversive acts of resistance.”
― Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects. Indeed, if babies did not have a mentalese to translate to and from English, it is not clear how learning English could take place, or even what learning English would mean.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“We are a stupid species with smart phones.”
― Abhijit Naskar