By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

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.

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

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.

Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in ‪‎sales‬. It's how you explain your failures.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'