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Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Edsger Dijkstra
Dutch - Scientist
May 11, 1930 - August 6, 2002

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time is the scarcest resource.

Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

Donella Meadows

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

Fred Brooks

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

Peter Drucker

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

Mal Fletcher

The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the decline of respect for rational scientific thinking. People seem to think that we are ruled by the scientific method and that we overvalue reason. If there was ever a period when we overvalued reason, I think that it was probably extremely brief. What I see now is a great deal of superstition, as much superstition as there has ever been. There are probably more people who believe in guardian angels than who understand the law of gravity.

Wendy Kaminer

Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth

Phil Harding

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Michelle Bachelet

Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

Walter O'Brien

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

Irwin Redlener

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

Marston Bates

When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.

Wes Jackson

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

Mark Nepo

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