World Is Flat Quotes

• No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  Political, World, Flats

  61 Copy quote

• It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

  Abe Gubegna

  Running, Athletic, Matter

  43 Copy quote

• Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).

  David Livermore

  Ideas, Differences, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

  Stuart Chase

  Common Sense, World, Flats

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa, 1952.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Education, Daughter, Mother

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

  Thomas Friedman

  Next Day, Riyadh, Baghdad

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

  Thomas Friedman

  World, Eras, Tiny

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada's the best country in the world.

  Justin Bieber

  Country, World, Canada

  "Bieber talks sex, politics and puberty". Rolling Stone Interview, www.cnn.com. February 18, 2011.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  India, Valleys, World

  86 Copy quote

• You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Stupid, World, Earth

  14 Copy quote

• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  Gary McCord

  Fall, Law, Ideas

  16 Copy quote

• I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Notebook, World, Four

  11 Copy quote

• I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, America

  4 Copy quote

• I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, Egypt, Years

  12 Copy quote

• In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

  Thomas Friedman

  America, Bills, Today

  4 Copy quote

• If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

  Robert Crandall

  Believe, World, Pilots

  12 Copy quote

• Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

  John Ralston Saul

  Thinking, Errors, World

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “Voltaire's Bastards”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

  Stuart Chase

  Fall, Light, Iron Will

  Stuart Chase (1962). “The Proper Study of Mankind”, New York : Harper & Row

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  Casey Miller

  Children, Teaching, Use

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Thinking, Acting

  4 Copy quote