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Herman Kahn

"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."

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"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."

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Asa Don Brown

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

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Asa Don Brown

"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."

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Asa Don Brown

"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."

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Asa Don Brown

"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

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Asa Don Brown

"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."

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Asa Don Brown

"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."

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Asa Don Brown

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

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Asa Don Brown

"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."

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Asa Don Brown

"The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia."

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Asa Don Brown

"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

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Herman Kahn
"Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought."

Thought

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Herman Kahn
"A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit."

Government

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Herman Kahn
"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."

War

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Herman Kahn
"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur."

Time

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Herman Kahn
"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."

Defence

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Herman Kahn
"I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking."

Thinking

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Herman Kahn
"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."

Policy

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Herman Kahn
"I'm against ignorance."

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Herman Kahn
"From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process."

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Herman Kahn
"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own."

War

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