"It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now"

“If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.”

“Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus

“The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.”

“I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.”

“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.”

“Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the omnipotent and insane idea of wanting to generically modify an entire nation. This idea was not on the outskirts of Nazi ideology, it was the heart of movement, that's what intrigued me. Mengele is the most extreme expression of this idea.”