"My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag."

-- Al Gore

#Community Quotes #Important Quotes #Lockers Quotes

“When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.”
“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
“And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.186, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.”
“In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.”
“I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.”
“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”

Source : Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford
“Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.”

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