quotes about Too Much Information

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.”

“Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.”

“Everything can be undone, including success.”

“Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent.”

Source : "The Forest Covering Must Be Restored In Finland". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1995.

“War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.”

“Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.”

“Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.”

“I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so they don't have to bother. The second group, which is quite large, is very Biblically literate Jews. And the third, which is also very large, is Christians, most of them evangelical. The evangelical readers and the Jewish readers have generally been very encouraging, because they appreciate someone taking the book they love so seriously, and actually reading it and grappling with it.”

Source : "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.”