Size Reduction Quotes

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

I'm really small, so I think if I shrink, I'd turn into a puddle.

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.