My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment. Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible – indeed, inevitable – the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will...

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved – if it can be achieved at all – within the next few hundred years. Arthur C. Clarke, 1983

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. Arthur C. Clarke,...

The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman. Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our...