#war

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cloak #conviction #killing #murder #nothing

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#catastrophe #changed #drift #everything #modes

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#great #great pleasure #incorrigible #indeed #me

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#clothed #cold #every #fed #final

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#keeps #like #only #requirements #software

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#aims #assembly #communities #considered #crowded

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#after #come #experience #fight #go