“America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.” PeopleWorldSelfAmericaPoliticalUnited StatesEconomicLandCitizensLuckyAreasRegardDisasterArroganceIsolationSelf SufficiencySufficiencyPromised LandPushy Author:Alison Lurie
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...” PeopleHumansRaceChristianityRegardIslamDisasterHuman RaceGood PeopleJudaismMonotheism Author:Gore Vidal
“Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.” Would BeRegardSavedDisasterPianoHold Me Author:Jools Holland
“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.” ThinkingHumansSufferingNaturalFateTragedyRegardDisasterHuman LifeExceptionDreadCalamityUnnaturalAbnormal Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.” PeopleWorldSocialPoorExistenceCrimeAmountNormalRegardThreatInjusticeIsraelDisasterWelfareProphetCheatingIngredientsEpisodesExploitationTypicalCatastropheDynamicsDismayDelinquency Book:The Prophets Source: The Prophets
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.” PeopleHumansWellsReligionRaceChristianityAtheismRegardIslamEducationalDisasterHuman RaceEthicalGood PeopleJudaismEducational SystemConfucianismMonotheism Author:Gore Vidal
“What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.” ThinkingWayTwoBigsSeemsFormValuesCultureTechnologyInformationAmountRegardStrategyMarketingCurrentsDisasterDataLabelsLinksSurprisingSchemesUnitsRecipesMessyConstraintsTagLabelingCategorization Author:Clay Shirky