Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

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

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.