2 Quotes by Albert A. Bartlett

We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues in the period of maturity it is called obesity or cancer. Prescribing growth as the cure for the energy crisis has all the logic of prescribing increasing quantities of food as a remedy for obesity.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.