"Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains."

-- Peter W. Huber

#Impact Quotes #Hands Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do”

Source : Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.
“Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.”
“Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?”
“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.287, Penguin
“You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.”
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?”
“Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.”
“When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.”

Source : Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.53, Penguin

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