Albert Allen Bartlett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Baseball #America #Design
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Law #Growth #Firsts
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Thinking #Cities #People
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Thinking #Long #Population
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Race #Inability #Environment
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Smart #Class #Differences
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Land #Agriculture #Use

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the â€˜core aspect of the designâ€™
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

Albert Allen Bartlett famous quotes

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