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The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows It was the nest-building season, but after days of long hard work, the sparrows sat in the evening glow, relaxing and chirping away. “We are all so small and weak. Imagine how easy life would be if we
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“The leading cause of death among active pilots is ... motorcycle accidents.”
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
“As a rule of thumb over the twentieth century the other factors together cost about as much as the labor. In the 19-Aughts, the average worker produced about 5 cars per year; by the Twenties, he produced 20. It was that factor-of-four productivity jump, spearheaded by Henry Ford and the assembly line, that made the family car possible.”
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
“One of the central mysteries of the green faith is the simultaneous belief that the Earth’s climate is heading for a catastrophe of existential proportions, due entirely to human CO2 emissions, and yet that completely emission-free nuclear power must be avoided at all costs.”
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to the seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. —Robert A. Heinlein, 1952”
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance— and bitter, exaggerated, last-ditch resistance— to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts. —Isaac Asimov”
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
― Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
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