Earth Now 2020 Quotes & Sayings

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. — Charles Kuralt

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. — James Lovelock

Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number. — James Comey

When Glacier Park was established in 1910, it had about 150 glaciers. Today, with human activities spewing carbon dioxide and methane as if we were intent on re-creating Earth's ancient atmosphere, a warming climate has reduced the number of glaciers to 25, and thoses are shrinking three to four times as fast as they were just half a century ago. The last one is expected to vanish by 2020. — Douglas Chadwick

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw

Well, aren't you a wet dream. — Lauren Smith

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs. — Rickie Fowler

Based on the above analyses, it is reasonable to expect the hardware that can emulate human-brain functionality to be available for approximately one thousand dollars by around 2020. As we will discuss in chapter 4, the software that will replicate that functionality will take about a decade longer. However, the exponential growth of the price-performance, capacity, and speed of our hardware technology will continue during that period, so by 2030 it will take a village of human brains (around one thousand) to match a thousand dollars' worth of computing. By 2050, one thousand dollars of computing will exceed the processing power of all human brains on Earth. Of course, this figure includes those brains still using only biological neurons. — Ray Kurzweil

The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them. — Jeffrey Dahmer

It is higher and nobler to be kind. — Mark Twain

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on. — Neal Stephenson

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like. — Marianne Williamson

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise. — Johan Cruyff

United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed. — Henry Kissinger

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it. — Ernest Holmes

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. — Hugh Mackay