oil Quotes

Digital solipsism is the philosophical oil of the 21st century. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Existentialism is the philosophical oil of the twentieth century. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Philosophical oil. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Last year, information became more valuable (more expensive) than oil. (Brittany Kaiser)

Thanks to Big Data, human mistakes will be a digital analogue of oil, a public resource for development in the current century.

The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.