My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

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.

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.

When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

Work hard and never make excuses.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.