It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information