"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

"Writing is a way to make sense of the chaos of the world."

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Overfishing is like maxing out a credit card - the heavy price will come due eventually.