Tainter Quotes

#1. We are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Joseph A. Tainter

#3. But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.

Haruki Murakami

#4. We can't abolish prejudice through laws ...

Belva Ann Lockwood

#5. You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

Andy Gilbert

#6. treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!

William Shakespeare

#7. You'll never meet a guy who avoids recklessness and abandon like I do.

Reki Kawahara

#8. In a time when, as Woodson puts it, 'book sales trump the quality of ideas...

Joseph A. Tainter

#9. Our own humble and meek ones, fasters and keepers of silence, will arise and go forth for a great deed.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

Albert Einstein

#11. Never give up but never forget to grow up.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.

Joseph A. Tainter

#13. The world was cruel with its rations.

Min Jin Lee