Quotes About Impacts

His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

That was the thing about impulsiveness. It contained the seeds of its own retribution.

Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

In non-technical language, The Singularity is Coming clarifies what may happen and speculates about how it may affect us. It is a compilation of information that includes comments from experts, news announcements of the latest developments, and a comprehensive reading list.

In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no wind, and no liquid water on the moon, craters can remain perfectly visible for billions of years, an orbiting catalog of impacts.

It's obvious that China faces a range of demographic and economic difficulties stemming from its own population growth, and that the global community has a vested interest in avoiding the worst impacts of that growth.

Perhaps a quarter of meteoroid impacts have led to potentially profitable deposits—at least half of which have already been exploited.

The long-term impacts of GMOs are unknown, and once released into the environment, these novel organisms cannot be recalled.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It's fucked up old age itself.

Many of the more worrying impacts of climate change are really symptoms of mismanagement and underdevelopment.

If you entrust a nation's economy to an impulsive leader with no care for facts, disaster will follow.