Makeshift Minds Quotes

“Theft keeps overheads low. Thievery is the mark of the fiscally responsible. In a society designed by the long dead, run by the benefactors of nepotism, and insistent that it rewards innovation above all other economic virtues – what the elite call thievery is the purest form of innovation any prole of a modern society could ever possibly come to achieve.”
― L.T. Jacobs, Makeshift Minds

“If you cover the eyes of a newborn kitten for the first year of its life, it will be blind for the rest of its days. Did you know that?

Who would do that to a kitten?!

In some ways, a lot of people.”
― L.T. Jacobs, Makeshift Minds

“You don’t make choices, Alys, your environment does. Your environment makes the choice, you just react to it. And right now, your environment will throw you beneath the guillotine in a heartbeat. These people made the moral choice for you long ago. What exactly do you think you’re waiting for?”
― L.T. Jacobs, Makeshift Minds

“But, much like a vase of snipped roses, they were pretty to look at, even if they were dead. And he knew what each of them was called. And these things together attracted him on occasion certain physical benefits from the opposite sex, and got him sent into space, so really, it was just the palaeontologists who lost out.”
― L.T. Jacobs, Makeshift Minds