Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

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.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

I like ideas, frameworks, and figures.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

Revolution is not an event! It's a process

As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.