Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)
“I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.”
Source: There's Treasure Everywhere
Quoted in the Independent (25 November 1998).
Rahul Gandhi: India is going to be 21st century Saudi Arabia, Rahul Gandhi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YOZOM0lROs
“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”
Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (24 November 2005).
Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)
R. G. Collingwood (1937), as cited in: Patrick Suppes (1973), Logic, methodology and philosophy of science: Proceedings.
“I couldn't believe this could be true in the 21st century.”
On slavery in India.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2008)
“Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century.”
Public lecture http://www.incubatepictures.com/notomorrow/making.shtml on peak oil and energy, November 2004.
“Progress towards the civilization of the 21st century will certainly not be simple or easy.”
Nobel Address (1991)
Context: Progress towards the civilization of the 21st century will certainly not be simple or easy. One cannot get rid overnight of the heavy legacy of the past or the dangers created in the post-war years. We are experiencing a turning point in international affairs and are only at the beginning of a new, and I hope mostly peaceful, lengthy period in the history of civilization.
With less East-West confrontation, or even none at all, old contradictions resurface, which seemed of secondary importance compared to the threat of nuclear war. The melting ice of the Cold War reveals old conflicts and claims, and entirely new problems accumulate rapidly.
