#widespread

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#come #computer #could #general #home

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#any #drastic #evidence #evolutionary #find

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms #arms race #before #desire #get

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#any #back #beginning #characteristic #environment

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#forest #most #north #type #widespread

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#any #because #could #cultivation #draft

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. ↗

— Joe Baca

#ample #cannot #dislocated #federal #funding

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. ↗

— John Berger

#cannot #common #emotion #envy #exist

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#around #authority #best #bottom-up #central