Ian Lowe quotes

“Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.”
-- Ian Lowe

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“The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.”
-- Ian Lowe

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“Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.”
-- Ian Lowe

Source : Ian Lowe (2005). “A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis”, p.108, Black Inc.

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“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”

“On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.”

Source : Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

“The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.”

“It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.”

“Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.”

“I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.”

“People's minds are overloaded with information.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.