Alex Yule

“There was always a dark shadow around the San Francisco rainbow. From the very beginning, violence, desperation, and fear stalked the streets of the Haight, side by side with the euphoria. “When I hear about the Summer of Love, I say, ‘Where was that?’” remarked Lewis. “It was there, but always lurking below was this seething hatred and fear from Vietnam and the Cold War. There was always this feeling that we were going to die.”
― David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love

“They were their own little state with thirteen citizens, cut off from human progress, marooned on a desert island in a sea the size of the universe.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“It is a mark of how far her species has come, that this is the only openly acceptable time when killing a male is considered appropriate. It is, however, quite true that packs of females—especially younger ones, perhaps newly formed peer groups seeking to strengthen their bonds—will descend to the lower reaches of the city and engage in hunting males. The practice is covertly overlooked—girls will be girls, after all—but overtly frowned upon.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“The only thing worse than fixing the wrong thing is leaving an attempt to fix the wrong thing unfinished. Half-finished initiatives create confusing, poorly documented, and harder to maintain systems.”
― Marianne Bellotti, Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems