"None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces."

-- Chalmers Johnson

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them - and for us - is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the . . .politicians. . .an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords - and we will be the poorer for it.”

Source : "A Jobs Agenda". www.nationalreview.com. October 5, 2011 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279321.
“A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.”
“You may change your profile picture to Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner, but you will never actually walk the streets the way they have, or systematically had your vertebrae stunted. So you will not walk that shrouded walk unless you're on the inside and you can occasionally nod at another on the inside and that acknowledgement can carry you for a while as it won't come from the outside.”
“You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.”
“Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.”

Source : "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.
“The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.”
“You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.”
“Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.”

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