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“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Sure, I know where most things are but give me enough time and I can lose anything.”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

“You can only fit so many words in a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”
― Sarah Kay

“He will never marry her, the translator tells me, after we have been driving in the dark for a few minutes. Yes, I say, but he can love her.”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

“During those eight months, however, I looked around and said to myself that since I found myself placed in this unhappy situation, I must find something to do. This is what anyone with a good education would do; otherwise the so-called good education is worthless.”
― Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream

“Working with Tribhuvandas and Kaira’s dairy farmers, I saw that when you work merely for your own profit, the pleasure is transitory; but if you work for others, there is a deeper sense of fulfilment and if things are handled well, the money, too, is more than adequate.”
― Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream

“I began to see then that when the government enters business, the citizens of India get cheated. The greatest repercussion of the government entering into business is that instead of safeguarding people from vested interests, they themselves become the vested interest.”
― Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream

“When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

“The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can’t beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

“A likeable bigot, though, some misguided people would say, apart from being an oxymoron is also a moron.”
― Naomi Datta, How to Be a Likeable Bigot: A Handbook for the Savvy Survivor

“जुम्मन ने ख़ुद को दुत्कारा, “लानत है ऐसे दोस्त पर शक़ किया जो तेरे लिए नौकरी क़ुर्बान कर आया।” उसे क्या पता था के श्रीवास्तव जी ने जूते मारकर निकाला था नथ्थू को। जमादारनी के साथ चौकीदारी करते पकड़ लिये गये थे उस्ताद।”
― Pankaj Kapur, Dopehri (Hindi)

“In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it. In our modern society this is emphatically so.”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

“However, by the end of 1947, P.C. Joshi found his line challenged by the radical faction of the CPI. They claimed that the freedom that India had obtained was false—‘Ye Azaadi Jhooti Hai’, the slogan went—and asked that the party declare an all-out war against the Government of India.”
― Ramachandra Guha, The Past and Future of the Indian Left

“While Marx himself was a great champion of modern technology, Indian Marxists are technophobic.”
― Ramachandra Guha, The Past and Future of the Indian Left

“Computers run our world and algorithms run computers, which begs the question: Where do algorithms come from? Fear of poetry, that’s where. Fear of the maddening influence of poetry.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“How many of us die before we’re done?”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“Economists are more like plumbers; we solve problems with a combination of intuition grounded in science, some guesswork aided by experience, and a bunch of pure trial and error.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems