The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....one friend who always makes her laugh... and one wholets her cry...

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of the all ages label, but I keep a wider audience in mind.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

Successful people in real estate are nicest people you can know.