Archive for the 'Quotes' Category

Quote
May 26, 2008

One thought/suggestion to use in a discussion with someone that says “if we can put a man on the moon, we can come up with a replacement for oil.”
You can take energy and make anything, but you can’t take anything and make energy.
Fossil Fuels + Man’s ingenuity = Man on the Moon
Man’s inguenity - Fossil [...]

Quote
May 18, 2008

“Let’s face it, as much as we try to scratch the planet Earth, we don’t find any cheap stuff around anymore”
-Ed Yardeni, Yardeni Research, NY

Quote
August 27, 2007

Michael Pollan, the author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” - on my list for one of the best ten books read this year - wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine that tried to distill what nutrition science had learned these past few decades. It had one of the best leads to an essay [...]

“What we should have realized…”
May 8, 2007

Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan in Legislature Monday during debate on merits of gas price caps:
A recent Ministry of Transport study of highway congestion on the North Shore, in my riding, in connection with the Lions Gate Bridge pointed out what we should have realized all along: that we must rely more and more upon mass [...]

The Daily Alarm: Quote 1
January 29, 2007

There is going to be a huge amount of response to the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC on Feb 2 - and lots of quotes.  In fact, it’s already started.  Here’s the best one I’ve seen today, from John Holdren, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
“We basically have three choices: [...]

Quote of the Day
October 22, 2006

From the opening episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip:
MATT
We make some budget cuts, we shoot in Vancouver.
DANNY
We’re not shooting in Vancouver. Vancouver doesn’t look like anything, it doesn’t even look like Vancouver. It looks like Boston, California.