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“1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.”

Years Long Might Stars Term Gone Century Increase Rate Treatment Chemotherapy

Author:Ralph W. Moss

“A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.”

Wealth Taken Century Increase Massive

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.”

Trying Ends Reality Would Be Forever Century Illusion Increase Sells Investing Wave Selling Destroyed Riding Episodes Bangs

Book:A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Source: A Short History of Financial Euphoria

“The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker”

Needs Important Century Increase Management Workers Productivity Contribution 21st Century Important Contributions Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.”

“The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.”

Way Believe States Shows Lasts Term Interest Century Amount Increase Financial Obvious Burden Debt Contracts Steady Drag Sooner Or Later Principal Payment Indebtedness

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good [...] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland's ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.”

Ends Growing Century Seasons Increase Harm Ice Caps Cumulative Rainfall Greenland

Author:Matt Ridley