Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

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.

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.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

There are no Asian movie stars

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I think we need to invest more in America.

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.