"That would be a good idea. already overwhelmed by journalists asking questions. One of them asked, `Mr Gandhi, what do you think of modern civilization?' And Mr Gandhi said, `That would be a good idea.''" - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) in reply to a journalist who had asked him 'Mr. Ga

"But I have seen the science I worshiped and the airplane I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve." - Lindbergh Jr., Charles A[ugustus] (1902-1974)

"Do not be quick to blame the encroachment of civilization for the lights on the horizon of your night sky; they may be the rising moon." - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 15 May 1994

"If builders built buildings they way computer programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed all civilization." - Weinberg's Law