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I'll be back --The Terminator Come with me if you want to live --The Terminator. Get out --The Terminator. Trust no one --The X-Files. Tell no one --Millennium. May the force be with you --Star Wars. Life is just a dream towards death --quote from the movie "The
Crow: City of Angels." A world that is pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth
--said Morpheus, The Matrix.
Quotes from Famous People
Imagination is more important than knowledge --Albert Einstein. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind --Neil Armstrong,
1st. man to step on the moon. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,
subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend
--Francis Bacon. Los que leen y observan saben mucho, pero los que leen, observan y meditan
saben mucho mas --tomado de mi horoscopo (taken from my horoscope). The supreme reality of our times is ..... the vulnerability of this planet
--JFK. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream --Edgar Allan.
Poe. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds --Francis Bacon. Patience is the best medicine --John Florio. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death --?? As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality --Albert Einstein. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it's comprehensible --Albert Einstein. Scourges, pestilence, famine, earthquakes, and wars are to be regarded as blessings,
since they serve to prune away the luxuriant growth of the human race, said Quintus
Septimius Florens Tertullianus, churchman; 195 A.D.
Quotes from Mainstream People
Those that live in the past are cowards and losers --former Bears coach
Mike Dikta. Someday Castro will be gone...In Cuba, the original leader is still there.
That part made it harder.....We have to prepare for a post-Castro Cuba because,
while the Cuban-Americans think it looks like it did when they left, it doesn't
--Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State under Clinton Administration. Mexico opposes the embargo categorically. It has opposed it since
1960.....It has only brought suffering to the Cuban people, without weakening the
government in any way --Jorge Castaņeda, Mexico's Foreign Minister. Responding to the coming of Singularity, We could be the last generation of humans .....Knowledge alone
will enable mass destruction, said Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons, said President
George Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Adress. If you loose money you lose; if you lose a friend you lose more; if you lose faith you lose everything.
Quotes from Economic Leaders
If the entire world were to adopt the lifestyle of the suburban American,,
then there would be no world to live in --Yashwant Sinha, India's Minister of
Finance. The gap in health outcomes is growing very dramatically: While the rich
world is cutting down on tobacco use, it's growing in the poor world.....when I say poor
world, of course, I mean the majority of the world --Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.
Chairman. Merging and managing cultures of different companies is, in my opinion, as
difficult-if not more-than having to manage different cultures of different countries
--Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Corp. President. The only way you could be optimistic about Japan is to turn the charts
upside down --Kenneth S. Courtis, Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman, Asia. [As CEO's] you often complain about the lack of understanding of middle
management.....But who chose your middle management? You?...You are responsible for
the lack of performance on their part --Yotaro Kobayashi, Keizai Doyukai Chairman,
Japan. The previous millenium was dominated by God.
The Reformation, the Crusades, music, the arts, were all according to God.....This century
is dominated by increasing technology--biotechnology, information technology and material
science --Michael L. Dertouzos, director of MIT Lab for Computer Science.
Quotes from Thoughtful People *
These guys didn't need to bring weapons to the country; The weapons were
in the country. They were airplanes. I'm not much afraid of chemical weapons stolen
from Russia; I'm afraid of perfectly legal agricultural chemicals that sit around in
ton lots. The thing I worry about is the terrorist who enters without his or her tools
and slowly builds them --Jay Davis, National Security Fellow, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. Politicians think that if they just keep science bottled up, and keep people
locked away behind high fences, we will be able to maintain our lead forever. But that's
not how science works. There are eight countries in the world that have nuclear weapons
today, and most of them didn't get help from the U.S. There are no secrets in science --
Stephen Schwartz, Executive Director, Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science. Has technology made us safer relative to 50 years ago or 60 years ago? The
clear answer is no. Now there is a real potential for radiological weapons and nuclear
weapons, because technology has basically distributed all this stuff around the world,
so people have access to it. People often assume that the U.S. is going to be the only
one gaining from advances in technology. That's not true --Lisbeth Gronlund, Senior
Staff Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists. There's no point in having that idealistic view that in the future technology
is going to rescue us. There's no point in thinking technology is evil and it's going to
destroy us. The good and the bad come from the people --Simon Phipps, Chief Technology
Evangelist, Sun Microsystems. We could spend our entire gross national product on security. I mean there
is an infinite demand, right? Look how much we can spend searching every truck and vehicle
that comes from Mexico. So we have to realize that there are limits. While you can reduce
some risks, avoid some risks, mostly we have got to be alert. Do what's reasonable, and
then pursue global justice --Ralph Nader, Former Presidential Candidate. Data mining is the most important technical problem we currently face.
[The National Security Agency] collects zillions of bits of information. How do you get
the different data sources together -broadcast data, agent reports from the FBI, purchasing
and shipping records- and how do you filter through it? All the algorithms you would
need have not been developed yet. You need a flow of younger researchers who know the
latest technologies involved and how to apply them. You would hope that there's a resurgence
of patriotic feeling post-9/11, you would think that people would be more willing to
[work for the government], but it's still a difficult working environment --Steven
Koonin, Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology; Chairman,
Jason, a science and technology advisory group to the Pentagon's Defense Research
and Engineering Division. The search for a safe society is dangerous as hell. One of the most frightening
things is that in response to terrorist threats you create a repressive government, that
we try to put the lid on everything, that you now look at technology and ask, is there
anything that might possibly go wrong? The solution is to think carefully before rushing
out and adding more regulations and bureaucracies --Fred Smith, President, Computer
Enterprise Institute. If modern science exemplifies the dialectic between good and evil then nothing
represents evil so clearly as the research, design, and production of nuclear weapons of
mass destruction. In the bomb lies the spirit that could negate all. The failure of the west
to inaugurate a progress of nuclear disarmament has led states elsewhere to acquire plutonium
and manufacture their own bombs. Do I feel safe? Like hell I do --Tariq Ali, Author,
The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity. The longer the time frame between attacks, the more likely it is that people
will let their guard down and deny the seriousness of the threat. The record of Al Qaeda
is that they take their sweet time and they have patience beyond all imagination. So it makes
me somewhat pessimistic in terms of our ability to do the things that need to be done to maintain
an effective defense against these kinds of horrific attacks. Denial is a very human
response, but it does run counter to what's necessary to maintain vigilance --Paul
Leventhal, President Emeritus, Nuclear Control Institute. We're entering into a new way of life, and we're just as ignorant of this new environment as the paleolithic warrior was
in his environment. I think we have to accept risk in our lives. You cannot eliminate all risk without being dead
, answered Alvin Toffler, Author, Future Shock, The Third Wave, and War and Anti-War.
* They answered this question: Can science make us more secure?
Source: Popular Science September 2002, pages 68-69.
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