“Humans have little plan to get anywhere beyond their short term benefits.”
“But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .”
“I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.”
“Hello?""How's it going?" Dane asked.I relaxed at the familiar voice. "I'm having a fling with a younger man," I told him. "He's kind of short for me, and there's a little incontinence problem . . . but we're working to get beyond all that.”
“The best pitchers have a short-term memory and a bulletproof confidence”
“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”