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“TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.”

Children Fall House Grows Process Growing Up Clothes Clean Autumn Plastic Toys Carpet Unfolding Seeming Ecosystems Mushrooms Autumn Leaves

Book:Joy For Beginners

Source: Joy For Beginners

“Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.”

People Needs Today Rich Air Smart Meetings Phones Cells Data Massive Devices Desks Notebook Cell Phone Ecosystems Computing Tablets Desktop Data Centers

Author:Bill Gates

“Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.”

Knows Culture Chinese Peril Ecosystems Chinese Culture

Author:Yao Ming

“The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.”

“The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

Growth Becoming Negative Impact Population Elites Evident Reducing Ecosystems Population Growth Population Control Agenda 21

Author:David Rockefeller

“I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of an ecosystem. Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in some narrow niche can do very well.”

People Thinking Wells Can Do Animal Economy Free Market Niche Ecosystems Market Economy

Author:Charlie Munger

“Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next generation dynamic cloud infrastructure. We are building a fully-converged private platform around Essex, leveraging best-of-breed cloud building blocks to deliver a high-performance, flexible solution. This release marks a major a proof point of OpenStacks commitment to open community development and pluggable APIs, which benefits the entire cloud ecosystem.”

“Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.”

Perception Nervous Ecosystems Nervous System Sensory Sensory Perception

Book:Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Source: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

“Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.”

Body Environment Your Body Ecosystems

Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel

Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel

“Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.”

Trying Challenges Design Findings Ecosystems Emulate Biomimicry

Author:Janine Benyus

“Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.”

Policy Holy Environmental Compromise Ecosystems

Author:David James Duncan

“We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.”

Way Needs Whole Pieces Havens Picks Resources Ecosystems

Author:Ted Danson

“To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.”

Higher Institutions Size Missions Statements Diverse Ecosystems Tag Higher Education Price Tag Mission Statement

Author:Gordon Gee

“Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.”

Sea Creatures Prepared Species Scales Sharks Ecosystems Extraction Squids

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.”