• Moral Hazard: any situation in which one person, one agency, or one country, makes the decision about how much risk to take, while someone else bears the cost if things go badly...heads I win, tails you lose.
  modified from a definition by Paul Krugman in: Risky Business: Lessons in risk management for an international greenhouse gas emissions market (pdf) James F. Perkaus & Kevin A. Baumert, World Resources Institute
  
• More has been discovered in the last fifty years than in all of recorded history, and at the same time, more has been lost and destroyed—nature, cultures, on every level—than ever previously..
  Dr. Sylvia Earle, eminent oceanographer and resident explorer for National Geographi
  as quoted in by Benstein, J in Kellert, S.R. and T. J. Farnham 2002
  
• Models allow our minds to explore the reality that they represent; and they may scale both tiny and huge objects to a size that we can comprehend and become familiar with.
  2001 Models in Science .Molecular Universe, The Royal Institution of Great Britain and ZFS
  
• The truth of Amos is not the accuracy of his predictions, which proved wrong, but the imaginative power of his oracles to shake moral inertia.
  [Bonsor, Jack A . 2003. "What is Truth ?" Towards a Theological Poetics (Book Review).   Theological Studies . 64(1):97.]
  
• While many fear the scientific tendency toward overanalysis, the corresponding fear of religion involves a lack of analysis....both science and religion have aspects that people fear and resist. [& technology too!]
  Farnham and Kellert, Building the Bridge: Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World . p 4  IN: The Good in Nature and Humanity
  
• We are not taught to look for the nuances of meaning and gesture through which we can hold a delicate, yet powerful conversation with the problem...Something in our culture works against a sensitive, participative understanding of the world, often obliterating that understanding wherever it does arise. Talbot, S. 1998. Why is the Moon Getting Further Away. Orion: People & Nature 17(2): 34-43
  
• What is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything?

42      (Deep Thought - the ultimate AI supercomputer)

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

• Traditional schools have emphasized individual performance and competition and have discouraged students from working or even talking together. In the new model of school, classroom experiences emphasize critical thinking, teamwork, compromise, and communication - the skills valued in today's workplace.
  This model of education calls for changing the roles of students, teachers, and schools. In the new model of schools, students assume many of the functions previously reserved for teachers.
  1995. National Academy of Sciences, A New Model for Education, Reinventing Schools: The Technology Is Now
  
  
• What is modern technology? It too is a revealing. Only when we allow our attention to rest on this fundamental characteristic does that which is new in modern technology show itself to us......Thus when man, investigating, observing, pursues nature as an area of his own conceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness of standing-reserve.
  Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology
  
  
• From the steel towns of yesteryear to today's wired cities, the interplay of new technoloyg and its environmental effects has indeed been complex.  Technology will always be a double-edged sword, but creative use of new economic approaches to environmental management shold help blunt its destructive edge an dhone its capacity for good.
  Austin, David and Molly K. Macauley 2001. Cutting through Environmental Issues: Technology as a Double-Edged Sword. Brookings Review,  19(1):24-27.