#ironmen

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#culture #environment #important #less #long

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#afghanistan #being #bringing #change #environment

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#cities #environment #everyone #forward #getting

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. ↗

— Tom Peters

#bureaucratic #companies #environments #excellent #exciting

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#ahead #although #any #balance #come

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price. ↗

— Dan Miller

#america #blessed #border #both #both sides

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ↗

— Frank Miller

#characters #defined #environment #having #how

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#create #environment #going #happen #i

I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#could #different #different things #environment #explore

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#brothers #environment #friends #grew #guys