"Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation."

-- Carlo M. Cipolla

#Stupid Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”
“Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.”

Source : "The Joys of Technology: Burying Ourselves in Capabilities" by Philip Slater, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.
“I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.”
“To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.”
“It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.”
“I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1891). “A White Heron”
“Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.”

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