Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

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.

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.

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.

Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.