Quotes About Transition

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Societies go backwards sometimes.

Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school.

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.

I never could understand why Leslie Fenton gave up a soft touch in front of the camera to move behind it.

When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.

Maybe I'm in the wrong sport. I should go to Australia and play fast-pitch softball.

After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

I've turned 30 now and, although there will always be a bit of the rock chick in me, I'm trying to embrace my softer and more feminine side. And I am trying really hard to be healthy.

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it's pretty easy to think, 'OK, we can build something pretty big.'

When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And I finally connected with these guys who started a software company, and almost serendipitously fell into that. I felt like they were goofy guys and that I was a goofy guy.

It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners.

I was forced to leave my hometown, and Napoli sold me to Juventus.

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.

We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.