Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

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.

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

Rose, nothing in this world could make me hate you." "Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead?

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.