quotes

March 20, 2023 by achrilock

“Because the bailout of banks following the Second Pulse crash was huge. They always are. The bailout of the 2008 crash, which served as the model for the two that followed it, was calculated by historians at somewhere between 5 and 15 trillion dollars. One careful guess said it was 7.7 trillion dollars, another 13 trillion; both added that this was more than the cost (adjusted for inflation) of the Louisiana Purchase, the New Deal, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the 1980s savings and loan bailout, the Iraq wars, and the entire NASA space program, combined. Conclusion: wars and land and social programs must not be very expensive. And compared to rescuing finance from itself, they’re not.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3609/

March 13, 2023 by achrilock

“This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.”

— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3526/

March 8, 2023 by achrilock

“That’s XCOM, baby!”

— Jake Solomon

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https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3441/

March 8, 2023 by achrilock

“‘The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills,’ he told her. ‘I will do what I must. Remember that, Moiraine. I will do what I must.’”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3426/

March 5, 2023 by achrilock

“The Way of the Leaf was a fine belief, like a dream of peace, but like the dream it could not last where there was violence. He did not know of a place without that. A dream for some other man, some other time. Some other Age perhaps.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3381/

March 2, 2023 by achrilock

“You can picture an atom as a little solar system, with the neutrons and protons bound into a nucleus and the electrons spinning around the nucleus like planets around a sun.”

— Charles Petzold, ‘CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/03/3343/

February 28, 2023 by achrilock

“‘Same thing as always. Who done it,’ Miller said. ‘After all, something killed off the civilization that built all this.’”

— James S. A. Corey, ‘Cibola Burn’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3296/

February 24, 2023 by achrilock

“That evening the second rain came, hours of drenching downpour with a sky full of roiling black clouds and stabbing lightning.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3232/

February 21, 2023 by achrilock

“Very low footprint, you know, since it’s basically all in your head. And you can use it to think through pretty much any scenario you want—and change the rules as you see fit.”

— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3175/

February 19, 2023 by achrilock

“They won’t march into the campus, not now, but there’ll certainly be a purge of the teaching staff.”

— Una McCormack, ‘The Never-Ending Sacrifice’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3141/

February 15, 2023 by achrilock

“‘Better and better,’ said Locke.”

— Scott Lynch, ‘The Republic of Thieves’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3092/

February 14, 2023 by achrilock

“You’re at the mercy of the Trollocs, the mercy of the Whitecloaks, and the mercy of anybody with a grudge. As long as one has a hold on you, all three do.”

— Robert Jordan, ‘The Shadow Rising’

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https://achrilock.com/2023/02/3069/