Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.