Amy Sterling

“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

“Law is organized Justice. Now”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“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

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln