Strugatsky Roadside Picnic Quotes

#1. Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#2. Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Margaret George

#3. Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

R. Buckminster Fuller

#4. I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

Chuck Yeager

#6. Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

Zygmunt Bauman

#7. The process is not just the sum of its parts.

W. Edwards Deming

#8. It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

Joan Didion

#9. When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

Johnny Carson

#10. I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Thein Sein