Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!
I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.
In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.