Progress in agriculture must be measured not just in yield, but in long-term environmental impact.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

"Drawing is like dreaming with your eyes open."

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.