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.

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.

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.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Before you can have a share of market, you must have a share of mind.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."