"We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom."
— graffiti
(Source: Wikipedia)
"If there is anything completely useless, it is an uncontrolled river in an inaccessible canyon."
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Summary of a 1952 study for the Echo Park Dam on the Green River in Colorado. I doubt many paddlers today would agree with this sentiment. Thankfully, the Sierra Club also felt the river would be better left free and pursueded Congress to abandon the dam plan.
From Desert Magazine, 1952 Issue 2, page 34
(Source: mydesertmagazine.com)
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
— Jeff Hammerbacher
(Source: The Atlantic)
(Source: russiabyriver)
