Quotes About Impact

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today." (Interview, Sierra Magazine , May/June 2005)

Virtually all observers agree that it is a terrible disadvantage for a child to come into the world without a father. Fatherless children are much more likely than those from two-parent homes to be poor, fail in school, commit crime, and, in turn, have fatherless children.

blacks are suffering more from the invasion [of Spanish] than whites because they have fewer resources with which to run away from immigration.

Blacks are particularly loyal to funeral homes, and the rumor that a black home has been bought by white interests can wreck the business.

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don't consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to reach any of my lady friends on the phone.

Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

This is a result of APIs being like stars: once someone discovers them, they need to stay and behave well forever.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Children who are emotionally abused and neglected face similar and sometimes worse mental health problems as children who are physically or sexually abused.

Despite these many factors, the impact of Mother is unparalleled. An attentive, capable, caring mother can help make up for many other handicaps, and the absence of such mothering is perhaps the greatest handicap of all, because when Mother is not doing her larger-than-life job as it needs to be done, children have significant deficits in their foundations.

the quality of the mothering we receive so powerfully shapes our development.

Traumatic experiences are so powerful that they often affect your entire worldview. It's like wearing glasses that distort your vision.

You can rationalise a baseball bat, but it still drastically changes the shape of your head. Three

It's more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.

Migration had brought development, to a degree that no one had imagined. And development brought more migration.

The wild success of the "Ducase" had two large and lasting effects on America. The first was that it discouraged future Nazi attempts at spying within the borders of the United States. The second was that it made J. Edgar Hoover a legend.