Exponential Growth Quotes

• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

  "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

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• The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Race, Environmental, Inability

  "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

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• The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• Love is the most powerful force in the world.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Love, Powerful, Civilization

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• Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, Civilization, World

  Patrick Dixon (2011). “Futurewise”, p.127, Profile Books

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• We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Civilization, Curves, Growth

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. When things pile sky-high on top of each other, I try to take a moment to: breathe, smile, repeat. This mantra helps me align to the reality outside of the superfluous noise.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Reality, Sky, Growth

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• Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

  Narendra Modi

  Perseverance, Adventure, Technology

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• We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Growth, Busier

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.

  Bill Henson

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

  Stephanie Mills

  Growth, Population, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  M. King Hubbert

  Two, Growth, Culture

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• Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mean, Phones, Cells

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Growth, Internet, Predictions

  "Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development". Book by Patrick Mcdermott, 2002.

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• It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Technology, Thinking, Growth

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• Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

  Steven Kotler

  Sports, Lying, Adventure

  Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Growth, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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