The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.