"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
— Michel Foucault

"To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
— Noam Chomsky

"If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions, then of course it will follow that a decent society should maximise the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realised. Now, a federated, decentralised system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism. And it seems to me that it is the appropriate form of social organisation for an advanced technological society, in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in a machine."
— Noam Chomsky

"I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come"
— Gilles Deleuze

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
— George Orwell (1984)

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."
— Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
— Albert Camus