#ow

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. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#create #ensure #face #figured #global

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coming #did #end #exhausting #fisheries

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships. ↗

— Selma Blair

#bad choices #bad luck #choices #chosen #deal

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#how #intelligence #man #shows #smart

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#australia #bands #come #days #exotic

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#absolute #activate #any #dependence #did

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#experience #how #i #kid #learn

I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots. ↗

— Selma Blair

#because #down #go #i #i think

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended