“Both magnetic and optical storage formats—videotape, digital discs, and drives—decay much faster than commercial film stock. Despite living in the cloud, there is no heaven for digital data. And in fifty years, even if our CDs, DVDs, flash drives, and YouTube accounts retain their contents, which is unlikely, there will be no devices or software with which to read them. Skip even one generation of technological change and the precious photos, videos, or letters on the floppy disks in the closet become inaccessible or illegible.”
Source: Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
“No wonder these people don’t believe in evolution. It obviously hasn’t worked in their favor.”
Source: Requiem for the Devil
“All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?”
Source: Siegfried: A Black Idyll
“...when the lights went out.
It wasn’t just the lights. So many things about his physical situation changed all at once that his hindbrain couldn’t keep up. It told him to be nauseated just in case he’d been poisoned. It was working with fifty-million-year-old response algorithms.”
Source: Abaddon’s Gate
“Человек - это промежуточное звено эволюции, необходимое для создания венца творения пpиpоды - рюмки коньяка и дольки лимона.”
Source: Понедельник начинается в субботу
“What I don’t understand,’ Geoff says, ‘is why did the first fish, like the one who started land animals, suddenly decide one day to just leave the sea? Like, to leave everything he knew, to go flopping around on a land where no one had even evolved yet for him to talk to?’ He shakes his head. ‘He was a brave fish, definitely, and we owe him a lot, for starting life on land and everything? But I think he must have been very depressed.”
“In the realm of Maya's veil,
Where illusions dance and sway,
Ram and Krishna, wise and true,
Saw through the world's ephemeral hue.
Allah, the All-Merciful, proclaimed,
"This mortal stage, a fleeting game,
Where egos strut and passions flare,
A testing ground, a soul's repair."
Muhammad, the Prophet of Light,
Expounded on the material plight,
A transient realm, a fragile guise,
Where true treasures lie beyond the skies.
Oh, heed their words, their wisdom deep,
And seek the essence, the soul to keep,
For in the depths of spirit's embrace,
Lies true reality, time's endless chase.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“How can you know that if you've never had anyone?"
"How do you know you want to?" I reply. "I've never drunk octopus ink, but I don't feel the need to. Or like I'm missing anything in not having tasted it.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“I do not want to know things, I want to understand things. I want to answer every question ever posed me. I want to leave no room for anyone to doubt me.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“Mythology is all shite anyway,' she says. 'It never has stories about people like us. I'd rather write my own legends, or be the story someone else looks to one day, build a strong foundation for those who follow us.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy