Car Quote by Vaclav Smil Download Open image “There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.” — Vaclav Smil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Car Design Last Reason Seven
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
We were trying to build a car that would last, that had the quality of eternity. — John DeLorean Copy Share Image
I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car,… — Kiran Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“A new car can be driven for 10 years or more if it’s properly maintained. Heck, drive that sucker into the ground before you… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
My view is that we will still have many different categories of cars in the future. — Henrik Fisker Copy Share Image
The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. — Frontinus Copy Share Image
By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach. — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs. — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I wanted to narrate the great, and a truly nation-building, story of US manufacturing—and because I believe that without the preservation and reinvigoration of manufacturing, the United States has little chance to extricate itself from its current economic problems, meet the challenges posed by other large and globally more competitive nations, and remain a dynamic… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
I don't own a yacht or a flashy car. I've always had safe cars because I do so much driving. I don't think I've… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
I was with Dre when he was just selling tapes. He didn't have a car, a license or a job. — Michel'le Copy Share Image
'Melanin Man' was inspired by the words of an Uber driver in L.A. Before I got out of the car he said, 'They're scared of you young man. You're a king and they all know it. They want your culture, your soulful element and your style. You're Melanin Man, a super hero. Be safe out here.' Then I got out… — Masego Copy Share
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early… — Anita Shreve Copy Share
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I hate it when you stare I hate your big dumb combat boots And the way you read my mind I hate you so much, that it makes me sick And even makes me rhyme I hate… — David Levithan Copy Share
![“Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.” quote by Vaclav Smil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/643/vaclav-smil-11559_bottom_everyone-in-higher-education-was-what-i_528472.jpg)
