Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

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.

There must be a mistake, " I said. He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.

Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.