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Randall Munroe
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
Randall Munroe

“Ulpian, a jurist (d. ca. 229 CE), explained the basic principles of Roman law this way: “The rules of law are to live honestly, to harm no person, and to give to each his due.”
John M. Riddle, A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500

Arthur Schopenhauer
“clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4

Iain Banks
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
Iain Banks

William Gibson
“Things were launching themselves from the ornate sunburst spires, glittering leech shapes made of shifting planes of light. There were hundreds of them, rising in a whirl, their movements random as windblown paper down dawn streets. “Glitch systems,” the voice said.”
William Gibson, Neuromancer

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