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.

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

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.

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

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.

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes, that was my biggest.

Thought precedes actions.

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.