Renton, Blowing It: Courting Disaster" (Chapter 4, Story 1).
Trainspotting (1993)
“Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!”
Canto 8, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
[Ian Shapiro, Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror, https://books.google.com/books?id=i7L6if3mwzsC&pg=PA145, 2009, Princeton University Press, 145–]
“But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.”
Source: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 18 (p. 213)
“How many generations need to comply in a fallacy before it becomes accepted as truth?”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The BL 755 cluster bomb (p. 652)
“How many Microsoft employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
The answer to that is none because Bill Gates has declared darkness the new standard.
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669
“How many Macintosh division employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
The answer is one. The Macintosh division employee holds up the light bulb and expects the universe to revolve around it.
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669
From 1980s onwards, Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Context: Neither the great political or financial powers of the world nor the population in general realize that the engineering-chemical-electronic revolution now makes it possible to produce many more technical devices with ever less material. We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be “you or me,” so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete. This has never been done before. Only twelve years ago technology reached the point where this could be done. Since then it has made it ever so much easier to do.
