„Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe“
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
Buckminster Fuller5
inventore, designer, architetto 1895 - 1983Citazioni simili
— Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
„There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not.“
— Harry Belafonte American singer 1927
On Barack Obama
Interview in The Guardian (2007)
Contesto: There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
— John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
Bk. 1, Ch. "The Number You Have Reached"
The Shockwave Rider (1975)
— F. J. Duarte Chilean-American physicist 1954
in [F. J. Duarte, Laser Physicist, Optics Journal, 2012, 978-0-9760383-1-3, 154]
„I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it.“
— Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
Contesto: I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it. But the point is, for me to tell you that you have an option is not to be optimistic... Time and again, of course I am running into millions who don't know we have the option, because it's invisible, and I feel I have tremendous responsibility. So when people ask me to come and talk to them, I do my best to let them know they do have the option. Of course they're pessimistic, not knowing that.
— Eugène Edine Pottier French politician 1816 - 1887
C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous, et demain
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain
The Internationale (1864)
„Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.“
— Frank Herbert, libro God Emperor of Dune
Origine: God Emperor of Dune
— Sania Mirza Indian tennis player 1986
In Zee News: "Winning Grand Slams is Sania's motivation after London Games"
— Jacob Aagaard Danish-born Scottish chess grandmaster 1973
As quoted in his Excelling at Positional Chess (2003), p. 19.
— Jerry Falwell American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator 1933 - 2007
Quoted in "The Nation's Best Bible College Gets Low Grades on Racial Diversity" The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, vol. 31 (2001), pp.43-45
— Nima Arkani-Hamed American-Canadian physicist 1972
[#qotd #quote of the day #IASIdeas, twitter.com, 12 July 2018, https://twitter.com/the_ias/status/1017439929985634304?lang=en] (9:05 AM)
— Eliezer Yudkowsky American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher 1979
Question 5 in Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky (January 2010) http://lesswrong.com/lw/1lq/less_wrong_qa_with_eliezer_yudkowsky_video_answers/
Contesto: This is crunch time for the whole human species, and not just for us but for the intergalactic civilization whose existence depends on us. This is the hour before the final exam and we're trying to get as much studying done as possible. It may be that you can't make yourself feel that for a decade or thirty years or however long this crunch time lasts, but the reality is one thing and the emotions are another... If you confront it full on, then you can't really justify trading off any part of intergalactic civilization for any intrinsic thing you could get nowadays, and at the same time, it's also true that there are very few people who can live like that (and I'm not one of them myself).
— Truman Capote American author 1924 - 1984
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
— Rio Ferdinand English association football player 1978
Rio Ferdinand's insight on how it would feel, not qualifying for World Cup finalshttp://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2004/07/EnglandFerdinandPreAustria.htm
