"Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today."

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Source : "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

Heinz von Foerster

#Men Quotes #Upset Quotes #Age Quotes

“Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education
“I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.”
“Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.”
“A grownup is a child with layers on.”
“Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.”
“It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.”
“Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible,”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 10, 2015
“Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.341, U of Nebraska Press

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