Interview by Andrea Di Marcantonio
Source: On the cultural attitudes regarding youth who want to enter the arts in “Art Talk with Playwright & Director Rick Shiomi” https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2016/art-talk-playwright-director-rick-shiomi in Art Works Blog (2016 Mar 31)
“The number one crime in any age: offending the money.”
Source: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 16, “Long-Lost Sibs” (p. 268)
Nur im Zusammenhange eines Satzes bedeuten die Wörter etwas. Es wird also darauf ankommen, den Sinn eines Satzes zu erklären, in dem ein Zahlwort vorkommt.
Gottlob Frege (1950 [1884]). p. 73
“The number one problem in business today is profitability.”
Where will you be allowed to make a profit in your industry? Where is the profit zone today? Where will it be tomorrow?
Source: The Profit Zone (2007), p. 3.
“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”
Conclusion
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
“The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.”
To a writer who complained that his work was being changed.
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed)
“We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits.”
Interview (Television) with Michel Polac - August 1, 1987 ("The Summers of the Right to Reply")
Interviews
Context: We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits. We are witnessing the end of progress. We have reached the saturation point. Are we going beyond these limits? Are we going to take the risk? There is much work to do to maintain the planet.
About global warming. Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "The most serious problems" (Penguin Books, 2011, page 493, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
