Quotes About Collapse

All I want to do is collapse on my metal plate.

Debe de ser un sistema muy frágil, si un puñado de bayas puede hacer que se derrumbe

Top-rank global corporations are collapsing. That could happen sometime, and somehow even to Samsung.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the catastrophic damage that began with the meeting of Igor Gouzenko and the RCMP.

After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr. Hussein and Colonel Qaddafi.

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

Education is an institution that has been growing without external stressors; eventually the thing will collapse.

Our aversion to variability and desire for order, and our acting on those feelings, have helped precipitate severe crises. Making something artificially bigger (instead of letting it die early if it cannot survive stressors) makes it more and more vulnerable to a very severe collapse-as I showed with the Black Swan vulnerability associated with an increase in size.

as societies gain in complexity, with more and more "cutting edge" sophistication in them, and more and more specialization, they become increasingly vulnerable to collapse.

I have an enormous faith in Time and History as eventual debunkers of fragility. Education is an institution that has been growing without external stressors; eventually the thing will collapse.

When constrained systems, those hungry for natural disorder, collapse, as they are eventually bound to, since they are fragile, failure is never seen as the result of fragility. Rather, such failure is interpreted as the product of poor forecasting.

you never cure structural defects; the system corrects itself by collapsing.*2

To Nero, a system built on illusions of understanding probability is bound to collapse.

in the event of its going down, it could go down a lot. Suddenly

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray. 19. Deconstructing