There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.