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Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
The notion of balance comes along with that, because if there is too little fearlessness, you might be a coward, and if there is too much fearlessness, everything is too intellectual.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
All of your behavior, including trips to Japan, China, and even the mountains of Afghanistan in search of space kamikaze pilots with a spirit of self-sacrifice, and your plan to put the mosquito fleet under your direct control once that search failed, was also entirely reasonable.”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die,” the Fremen said.
Frank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
He sprang forward with a yell, and seized his master’s sword in his left hand. Then he charged. No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
“If that’s the case, then your intelligence does not qualify you to be a Wallfacer, Dr. Luo Ji. You’re not as logical as your name suggests. My life really has been wasted, it appears.” The assailant looked at the two people standing on alert behind him and said, “Gentlemen, I think we can leave.”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
The lessons learned in the coliseum were clear: kill or be killed. Any company that can’t fully insulate itself from competitors—on a technical, business, or even personnel level—is a target for attack. To the winner go the spoils, and those spoils can amount to billions of dollars. It’s a cultural system that also inspires a truly maniacal work et
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