Jakob Rose

“Who can tell me the radius of Earth?” Trang raised his hand. “Three thousand, nine hundre—” “Trang!” Abby said. “The answer is Trang.” Trang froze in confusion. “What?” I asked. Abby preened. “You asked who could tell you the radius of Earth. Trang can tell you. I answered correctly.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Africa needs infrastructure. To do that, they need power. And they have nine million square kilometers of useless land that gets some of the most intense continuous sunlight on Earth. The Sahara Desert is just sitting there, waiting to give them everything they need. All we needed to do was build the damn power plants!” He flopped back in his chair. “But every local government wanted a piece of the pie. Graft, bribes, payoffs, you name it. You think I embezzled a lot? Shit, that’s nothing compared to what I had to pay in bribes just to build a solar plant in the middle of fucking nowhere.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“But my name is actually an English word. So Rocky just calls me the Eridian word for “grace.” Anyway, now I have to come up with an English word that means “Rocky’s spouse.” “Adrian,” I say. Why not? “Human word is ‘Adrian.’ ” “Understand,” he says. He heads down his tunnel into the lab.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary