In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.