"When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload."

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Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

John L. Casti

#Euro Crisis Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Events Quotes

“Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.”
“Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.”
“Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.”
“Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.”
“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.”
“I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know?”
“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”
“Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.”

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