He was afraid to call his constant thoughts infatuation, much less love,
“I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
― The Message
― The Message
“The point is that anything capable of self-replication, especially viruses and bacteria, is a potential existential threat. Intelligence, on its own, is not.”
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
“It is said that every day after covering a considerable distance, Napier would ask his Sindhi guide, ‘Who owns this land?’ and every time the answer would be ‘The Bhuttos’. At one stage he told the man, ‘I’m tired and want to sleep. When we come to the place where the Bhutto lands finish, wake me up.’ The guide didn’t have to do so, and as Napier got up from a long spell of sleep he was amazed to learn that they were still in ‘Bhutto territory’.”
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
“Every Bhutto was enemy of every other Bhutto.”
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
“The story of the Bhutto dynasty since Pakistan was created has been, to a significant extent, the story of the conflict between it and the army and of the Bhuttos’ failed attempts to reach a compromise with the generals.”
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
― The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
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