The role of the writer is to bear witness, to tell the stories that need to be told, to give voice to the voiceless.
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Sustainability isn't a trend—it's a responsibility. The dairy sector must lead in environmental stewardship.