#space

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#being #brain #director #eating #experts

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#bunch #businesses #everybody #fair #guys

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#awaiting #decide #destiny #ecological #exhaust

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#any #created #environment #sacred #spaces

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#endurance #finest #gives #life #lives

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#anyone #anything #arms #arrive #believed

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #characters #closer #different #each

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ↗

— Rebecca West

#challenge #filling #journalism #meet #space