Amistics Quotes & Sayings

We repeat like a religious mantra the unquestioned benefits and power of science, information and economics, without inspecting the structures and methodology on which they are built. Many of these beliefs are insupportable and dangerous. For example, the notion that human beings are so clever that we can use science and technology to escape the restrictions of the natural world is a fantasy that cannot be fulfilled. Yet it underlies much of government's and industry's rhetoric and programs. — David Suzuki

I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there. — Dale Archer

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone — Austin Mitchell

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks. — Ernest Hemingway,

On the social front it was a question of Amistics, which was a term that had been coined ages ago by a Moiran anthropologist to talk about the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives. The word went all the way back to the Amish people of pre-Zero America, who had chosen to use certain modern technologies, such as roller skates, but not others, such as internal combustion engines. All cultures — Neal Stephenson

They were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. — Margaret Atwood

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm. — Jane Hirshfield

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. — Bill Clinton

that very rare ability called imagination, that rarer quality called courage, and who make things happen. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb