V Scarlet

“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain-stem imperative of self-interest.”
― Peter Watts, Firefall

“I have the curse of reason: I'm poor, single and depressed. For months now I've been thinking about my illness of thinking too much, and I've established with complete certainty the correlation between my unhappiness and the incontinence of my mind. Probing and pondering and overanalyzing have never given me any advantages; they've only played against me.”
― Martin Page, How I Became Stupid

“George Orwell first noted, the true genius in advertising is to sell you the solution and the problem.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science

“Thing about emergencies,” he said, sounding weary. “Rarely occur when they’d be convenient.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata