"My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained."

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Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.31, Lexington Books

Herman Kahn

#Years Quotes #Nuclear Quotes #Use Quotes

“From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man's commercial and industrial needs... The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole art of communications, and this in turn is at least in part what has made possible its application to a dozen other arts. It was a great day for both science and industry when they became wedded through the development of the electronic amplifier tube.”
“The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.”
“You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.”
“The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.”
“Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.”
“Iâ€™ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youâ€™ve gone over to the Dark Side. But Iâ€™ll be fine. Thatâ€™s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.”
“So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.”

Source : Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.”

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