It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.

Higher thoughts lead to a higher life.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.