"Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes."

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Source : Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com

Jamais Cascio

#Design Quotes #Energy Quotes #May Quotes

“Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.”
“My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.”
“Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.”
“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
“I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.”
“Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.”
“There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.”

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