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

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."

The reason they call it an American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.

如果我们足够明智地正确开发，未来的粮食安全就在海浪之下。

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.