Vinay Kumaran

“Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it. Impoliteness is the Mildew of mankind, Eddie.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“There’s something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What’s the use of being men if that’s how you have to die.” “Stupidity,” muttered Bronowski.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

“Great works of uncommon genius will call for us to return to their worlds again and again, enticing us to pour our passion and enthusiasm into them so that time may continue to cycle and progress, beloved characters may return to life, and the universes may continue to evolve and develop, without cease.”
― Baoshu, The Redemption of Time

“Humans, too, are becoming numerous. We don’t cull egrets because they are beautiful and ornamental. We don’t cull humans because they are economically useful. However, if left completely unchecked, they would both ruin their environment. They eat; they breed; they shit. Neither is good at keeping their world clean and tidy. Too stupid, essentially.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Exodus: The Archimedes Engine