“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.” KnowsWorldKindHardKidsUsedChoicesIndividualCreativityTechnologyEasierEmpowermentToolsAccessUsed To BeBe KindIndividual Choice Author:Steve Ballmer
“I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.” BelieveHumansChoicesI BelieveHuman BeingsEasierStructureBelieve You CanRight ChoicesWrong ChoicesMake The Right ChoiceGood Human Being Author:Justin Welby
“But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHumansStillsTwoDifferentMatterChoicesDifferencesHuman BeingsForeverOughtEasierDisappearIslandsDividedDifferent Peoples Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.” LongMadeRealProblemChoicesDifficultGrowthTermChallengesAnswersTechnologyEconomyIssuesFieldsEasierIntellectualSolutionsComplexesEnvironmentalPopulationCarefulVariousComplicatedMessLong TermDecentTransitionSustainabilityStatus QuoIntertwinedPopulation Growth Book:The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror