"The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable."

-- David Halberstam

#Dangerous Quotes

“Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.”
“I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.”
“This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.”
“We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.”
“Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.”
“We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.”
“We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”

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