“People don't change their basic nature, they just accumulate more stuff upon which they can apply their stupidity, selfishness, and horniness. From this perspective, the future isn't hard to predict.”

— Scott Adams

Source: Books, The Dilbert Future (1997)

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cartoonist, writer 1957

Ian Plimer book Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth (2009)

“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

Guitar World Issue 37, 2000

“"Global warming" suggests a steady linear increase in temperature, but since that isn't happening, proponents have shifted to the more universal term "climate change," which can be liberally applied to just about anything observable in the atmosphere.”

Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist

Climate Change without Catastrophe: Interview with Anthony Watts http://oilprice.com/Interviews/Climate-Change-without-Catastrophe-Interview-with-Anthony-Watts.html, oilprice.com, 11 March, 2013.
2013

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Anyone who tries to predict the future is inevitably a fool. Present company included. A prophet without a sense of humor is just stupid.”

David Brin book Earth

Part III (p. 143)
Earth (1990)

“Only stupid people don't change their minds.”

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016) 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations

On why he sought a second 5 year term as Secretary General of the UN, having initially planned on serving only one, "The Change in the Administration's Position is a Mystery" http://www.globalpolicy.org/secgen/boutros/1996/deborch1.htm Interview with The Washington Times (11 November 1996)
1990s

“The world doesn't live off jam and fancy perfumes - it lives off bread and meat and potatoes. Nothing changes. All the big fancy stuff is sloppy stuff that crashes. I don't need dancing baloney - I need stuff that works. That's not as pretty, and just as hard.”

Theo de Raadt (1968) systems software engineer

Six-monthly releases: OpenBSD shows the way, Varghese, Sam, 2009-12-08, iTWire, 2016-02-16 http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way?start=1,

“What liars don't realize is that they are the most obvious people. bullshit isn't that hard to smell. Just open ya nose and breathe. Aaahh!”

Jussie Smollett (1982) American actor, singer, director and photographer

Source: 27 November 2010 https://twitter.com/jussiesmollett/status/8602162678468608

“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.”

Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) English fiction writer

The White Witch (1958), Part 1, Chapter 12.2

“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,…. Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“People don't change their basic nature, they just accumulate more stuff upon which they can apply their stupidity, selfishness, and horniness. From this perspective, the future isn't hard to predict.”

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