Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money … And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were left to its own devices, it’s Dubai.
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
We are rapidly—I was about to say, fearfully—growing.
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
The status quo leads to self-destruction.
Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs: The moment where it no longer wants to allow dissent.
We are going to strangle ourselves in our own growth.
When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
In the United States no trend ever arrives at its logical conclusion.
The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer.
All movements go too far.
The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.
We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.
My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.
Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.
