Albert Allen Bartlett quotes
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“Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.”
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“The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained”
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“Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?”
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“Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?”
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“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
-- Albert Allen BartlettSource : "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.
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“'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.”
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“Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food”
-- Albert Allen BartlettSource : "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis" by Albert A. Bartlett in "American Journal of Physics", Volume 46, No. 9 (pp. 876-888), September 1978.
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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
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“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”
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Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor
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“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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