“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
Marshall McLuhan
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.”
W. Edwards Deming
“It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are corrected, it makes doing the wrong thing wronger but the right thing righter.”
Russell Ackoff
“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
“I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,”
Jan Egeland
“We've been able to improve our warning system. Our records on tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, on flood warnings have been improving,”
Conrad Lautenbacher
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Thomas S. Szasz
