Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

I still have people from my past who treat me wrong, i thank them for making me strong.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.

I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.