Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

I'm not in business to make money.

I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.