Howard Wolpe quotes

“You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.”
-- Howard Wolpe

Source : "Howard Wolpe: U.S. Rep. Fred Upton has become a 'right-wing extremist'". An Open Letter To Fred Upton, www.mlive.com. October 14, 2011.

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“The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.”
-- Howard Wolpe

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“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”

“Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?”

“Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.”

“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”

“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan

“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”

“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”

“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”

“With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.”