If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

I came out the womb dancing.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.