Quotes About Resources

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

The King Center in Atlanta specializes in educating people about my father's life, work and teachings, and we have resources and programs available for that purpose.

And into the holds went: a platoon of carrier pigeons, six flyswatters and sixty rolls of fly-paper for each 1,000 soldiers, plus five pounds of rat poison per company.

People everywhere hear the excuse "there's not enough money". In actuality, there is enough money… just different priorities. New stadium, heathcare for all, faster trains, extravagant cathedral, subsidized education, tax cuts, next-generation bomber … each society makes different choices according to its priorities.

Someday, when historians perform their "why the Mayans declined" necropsy on American society, they will marvel at the way that, at a time of high anxiety about energy resources and costs, millions of elderly people took to the road in the clumsiest, most inefficient vehicles ever devised by man. The lunacy of America is all right there, in the RVs.

Drill, baby, drill.

The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.

over the last 16 years, we have spent trillions of dollars on wars when we could have been investing that money productively.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

The truth of cinematography cannot be the truth of theatre, not the truth of the novel, nor the truth of painting. (What the cinematographer captures with his or her own resources cannot be what the theatre, the novel, painting capture with theirs).

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

The results were obvious: as more horses were put to work, their need for grain increased. And that put them in direct competition with humans. By the early 1900s, as much as 20 percent of all US farmland was being used to cultivate grain solely for horse feed.5

Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.

Another problem with service-level decoupling is that it is expensive, both in development time and in system resources. Dealing with service boundaries where none are needed is a waste of effort, memory, and cycles. And, yes, I know that the last two are cheap—but the first is not.

The goal of software architecture is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system.

Recall that the goal of an architect is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system.

O objetivo da arquitetura de software é minimizar os recursos humanos necessários para construir e manter um determinado sistema.

It doesn't take a huge amount of knowledge and skill to get a program working. Kids in high school do it all the time. Getting it right is another matter entirely. When software is done right, it requires a fraction of the human resources to create and maintain.

Mother Nature is punishing us, ..., for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails - and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finer. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger? - Pliny, Pg. 176

the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)

Thirty years ago, the average British household contained enough food to last eight days; today the average is two days. It is no exaggeration to say that London, at any time, exists only six meals away from starvation.

Putting aside the concerns about the intentions of the rulers and the incentives for the workers, socialism cannot work because the central planner(s) would lack market prices and hence would have no way of determining, even after the fact, if their "rational" plan for production made an efficient use of resources.

Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward—or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive? Unlike

It's all a matter of leverage.