The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

How quickly a moment sinks into the past.

But a tedious way to a grievous end(745)

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

Many can argue - not many converse.

When I read, I'm purely a reader

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

Art for me is like breathing.