Andreas Weinberger

“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

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
― 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

“The difference between nations lay not in the technology itself but in the totality of the effort that brought that technology to life.”
― Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA