Andreas Weinberger

“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
― Iain M. Banks

“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

“…schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.”
― Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines