Amy Sterling

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Every decade archaeologists discover another few forgotten scripts. Some of them might prove to be even older than the Sumerian scratches in clay. But most of them remain curiosities because those who invented them failed to invent efficient ways of cataloguing and retrieving data. What set apart Sumer, as well as pharaonic Egypt, ancient China and the Inca Empire, is that these cultures developed good techniques of archiving, cataloguing and retrieving written records.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.”
― Robin Hobb, The Golden Fool