Crash Quotes - Page 24

• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Art, Heaven, Conditions

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• I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.

  Martin Luther

  Sky, Heaven, Grain

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• Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Airplane, Years, Law

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• Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Rising, Vulnerable, Economy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Causes, Credit, Four

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• An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.

  Mark Steel

  Army, Experts, Bases

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• Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash.

  Kim Dotcom

  Advice, Gold, Bitcoin

  Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom, twitter.com. June 20, 2015.

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• Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

  Garry Kasparov

  Revenge, War, Terror Attacks

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Next, Save A Life, Planes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Lightning, Thunder, Ifs

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• I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

  Stephen King

  Spring, Book, Writing

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.

  Bruce Schneier

  Worry, Car, Domestic Violence

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.447, John Wiley & Sons

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• I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Fearless, Mind

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• When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Circles, Modern Life, Planes

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• Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Government, Dieting, Eating

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

  Daniel Suarez

  Book, Population, Needs

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• Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.

  Mike Duncan

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings [Australia] McDonald's.

  Gotye

  Girl, Coffee, Home

  "Gotye Braces For Stateside Success With 'Somebody That I Used To Know'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. February 9, 2012.

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• The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

  Nils Bohlin

  Science, Aerospace, People

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• Nothing said I had to crash.

  Bob Hoover

  Funny, Aviation, Said

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• I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Airplane, Fire

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