Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.

Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.