"I'm really interested not just in privacy for the individual but respect for the local communities. And I think we have a problem with both and whenever industries kind of become almost monopolistic they have to be challenged to be more responsible. We can challenge them in the press, in the courts and in regulation."

“Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

“But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.”

“I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy.”

“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”

Source : John Dee, Gerald Suster (2003). “John Dee: Essential Readings”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

“Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Beginning with Julio's birth in 1900 and ending with his death in 2000, the graphic novel touches on most of the major events that shaped the 20th century.”

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”

Source : R. Buckminster Fuller “World Game Series: Document 1”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

“Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.”

“My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.”