A Quote by M. King Hubbert

Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

M. King Hubbert

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Centuries Constraints Continuance Cultural Culture Dependent Evolved Exponential Exponential Growth Growth Incapable Known Last Nothing Our Parallel Principal Problems Reckoning Stability Two

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M. King Hubbert
October 5, 1903 - October 11, 1989

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

Baba Kalyani

I want every album and every year to be a period of growth - and exponential growth as to what I'm able to do the each time around. I hope that I can really take my music to a place where it's widely heard and I can be touring and playing shows to bigger audiences.

Tei Shi

If the population curve is on an exponential growth, and the resources are on an exponential decline, what happens first is you get increases in wealth discrepancy, which means that you get rich pockets of gated communities with security guards outside them, and you get more and more poverty outside that area.

Neill Blomkamp

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Ian Somerhalder

An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.

Peter Diamandis

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Sam Altman

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

Stephanie Mills

Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

M. King Hubbert

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

Toshihiko Fukui

The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.

Jeff Greene

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

Jim Rohn

To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.

Bill Maris

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

Edgar Mitchell

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

Jason Silva

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Dee Dee Myers

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