John > John's Quotes

“on my laptop, I have written “This Machine Kills Neocapitalism”!”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That wasn’t just the Belt. That was all of history. The people who’d just been going about their lives were the ones who could speak to the actual cost of war. They paid it first. Men”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes