Harish Vaidyanathan

“In life, we have to fulfil both—the expectations we have been born into and those we have made for ourselves.”
― Aditya Iyengar, The Thirteenth Day

“history books tell us that the use of steel weapons and guns versus those fashioned of stone or wood safeguarded European victories. The real reason that European colonizers displaced or destroyed indigenous peoples, however, was largely a matter of disease and differing immunities. It was the dissemination of exotic European germs and foreign mosquitoes and their diseases unconsciously acting as biological weapons that sounded the death knell for indigenous peoples.”
― Timothy C. Winegard, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

“Martin Luther King, Jr., the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice.”
― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

“Times are legion: a different one for every point in space. There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them. The time indicated by a particular clock measuring a particular phenomenon is called ‘proper time’ in physics. Every clock has its proper time. Every phenomenon that occurs has its proper time, its own rhythm.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time