By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books