Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

Underestimation has its uses.

I am tired of hustling.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.