Environment Quotes

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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart… — Evgeny Morozov
I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices… — Howard Rheingold
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine… — Douglas Rushkoff
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways… — Douglas Rushkoff
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance… — Douglas Rushkoff
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the… — Douglas Rushkoff
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to… — Ashwin Sanghi
One planet, one experiment. — E. O. Wilson
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… — Neal Stephenson
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues. — Dr. Seuss
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will… — A A Milne
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because… — John Irving
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a… — Al Gore
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.… — Edward Abbey
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes… — Mark Twain
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass. — James Allen
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation. — Herman E. Daly
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be… — Henry David Thoreau

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