Kaan Akşit

“It is notable that the response to each public tragedy or threat in modern America seems to involve a call for citizens to surrender more of their rights.”
― Vernor Vinge, True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

“Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modeled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?”
― Greg Egan, Permutation City

“you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These creeds do not like to be called religions, and refer to themselves as ideologies. But this is just a semantic exercise. If”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind