It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species. More
"If anything, a social stigma against flying has begun to settle across Europe, akin to Americans' nausea over SUVs. The EU has voted to incorporate aviation into its cap-and-trade scheme, requiring airlines to pay for 15 percent of their pollution beginning in 2012-a lot to ask from an industry barely breaking even. Three US airlines are suing for an exemption, and the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico have lobbied the United Nations for the same. 'When you look at some of the taxes and fees being discussed in Europe,' said an MIT researcher, 'we might as well bankrupt our industry today.'"
– Greg Linday, Aerotropolis
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
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