The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-- Bertrand Russell

The world has never faced a problem like this. Without massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary.

-- US Department of Energy - PEAKING OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION report

Revolutions, before they happen, appear to be impossible and after they occur they appeared to have been inevitable.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
-- Charles Kettering

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
-- Edward Abbey

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley