Ibrahim

“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.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, 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.”
― Jeff Hawkins, 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’.”
― Owen Bennett-Jones, The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan

“Every Bhutto was enemy of every other Bhutto.”
― Owen Bennett-Jones, The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan