We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes