Andrew

“Civilizations are born from the marriage of bureaucracy and mythology.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“This was a useful machine, this engine. Another reminder that progress wasn’t all bad. Machetes replaced obsidian or stone knives. Motors replaced paddles. Except one day, that march of progress had turned him into the thing that was no longer needed. Progress was a wave. It first caught you in it and carried you, but the moment you slipped off the crest, you went crashing into the surf and maybe never came back up.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark

“Strange how the signs always fall in the favor of he who reads them.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“Stories are important,” he said. “I live because of the stories of trappers, who told me what to avoid.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark