#vast

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#big #down #down the road #how #hugely

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#build #cut #devastation #down #earth

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated. ↗

— Louie Anderson

#autograph #blew #boy #comedian #devastated

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#delivered #digitally #dream #early #early 1990s

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime. ↗

— Alan Autry

#crime #devastating #more #nothing #out-of-control

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#again #boring #conforming #ever #everything

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating. ↗

— David Baltimore

#body #cancer #cells #continually #cured

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry. ↗

— Max Baucus

#foreign #global #governments #had #ignored

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different. ↗

— Bruce Bennett

#different #expectations #needs #vastly

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#applies #does #existence #go #hidden