People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the book - both in form and what it contains and what you think. Well, you tipped in a lot and you digested a lot - it wasn't pre-digested in your view. And it changed what you thought and how you see things.