Karl Jacob

“Life is not calculus, you cold-hearted… algorithm.” “Life might not be,” I said, steeling myself against his enmity. “But in medicine we use our energies to help those we can, not those we cannot.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Eversion

“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” In”
― Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular

“The act of connection produces a fork in causality, the new branch causally unique. A stub, as we call them.”
― William Gibson, The Peripheral