# Quote — Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

> “Humans are molded by evolution to be short-termists, Miss Next,” he continued. His voice rumbled deeply and seemed to echo inside my head. “We need only to see our children to reproductive age to be successful in a biological sense. We have to move beyond that. If we see ourselves as residents on this planet for the long term, we need to plan for the long term.”

- Author: [Jasper Fforde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde.md)
- Book: [Something Rotten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten.md)
- Page: 148
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde#Something_Rotten_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten/humans-are-molded

## More from this book

> Whatever. As far as I can see, there is one state of dead and that’s ‘not living.’ Now, do you have anything useful to add to this investigation or not?”

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten/whatever-as-far.md)

> If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ultimately, without a major resolution.

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten/if-the-real.md)

> My father always argued that time was far and away the most valuable commodity we had and that temporal profligacy should be a criminal offense—which kind of makes watching Celebrity Kidney Swap or reading Daphne Farquitt novels a crime straightaway.

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jasper-fforde/something-rotten/my-father-always.md)