The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.
Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.
We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else—our time, our love, our resources. I have always found more joy in giving when I did not expect anything in return.
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
I'm extremely worried. I'm worried about the survival of our species, worried about what we're doing, worried about being Americans, worried about depletion of resources. On the other hand, we are trying. We are trying to understand our impact on the environment.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. Companies in fact are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.
There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. Its shocking.