Morgan Blackledge

“Hofstadter’s law tells us: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
― Christopher Chabris, The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

“If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The feedback loop between science, empire and capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years. The following chapters analyse its workings. First we’ll look at how the twin turbines of science and empire were latched to one another, and then learn how both were hitched up to the money pump of capitalism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind