The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

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.

You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

Stand up for what you believe in even if it causes waves.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.