We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of lets-take-care-of-one-another. Thats the creative challenge. – Jerry Brown
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. – Vernor Vinge
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death – everybodys pretending that death doesnt happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die. – Emily Mortimer
