To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster… — Katy B Copy Share Image
Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
Do you know what will be left after you open that box? Even though a lot of disasters came out, because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us… — Banksy Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The mid-90s were really not the high point of fashion for anybody - I had a fashion disaster when I wore heavily… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia…As a mother,… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One thing that President Donald Trump did is, when he formed his team, he brought in people who had some experience in… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky… — Solon Copy Share Image
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