If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.

Kurdistan has a long and turbulent history. Today, it faces a future branching in directions that could lead it towards success or disaster, freedom or renewed oppression.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

You can escape into a character.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.