“We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.”

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

A zebra can not change it’s spots.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there’s much, much more I can do.

I’m not a celebrity. I’m just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.