How The Hell Are You Supposed To

It Troubles Me That We Are So Easily Pressured By Purveyors Of Technology Into Permitting So-called "progress" To Alter Our Lives Without Attempting To Control It-as If Technology Were An Irrepressible Force Of Nature To Which We Must Meekly Submit.

Above All, We Should Bear In Mind That Our Liberty Is Not An End In Itself; It Is A Means To Win Respect For Human Dignity For All Classes Of Our Society.

All New Ideas Begin In A Non-conforming Mind That Questions Some Tenet Of The Conventional Wisdom.

I Suggest That This Is A Good Time To Think Soberly About Our Responsibilities To Our Descendents - Those Who Will Ring Out The Fossil Fuel Age. Our Greatest Responsibility, As Parents And As Citizens, Is To Give America's Youngsters The Best Possible Education. We Need The Best Teachers And Enough Of Them To Prepare Our Young People For A Future Immeasurably More Complex Than The Present, And Calling For Ever Larger Numbers Of Competent And Highly Trained Men And Women.

Trying To Make Things Work In Government Is Sometimes Like Trying To Sew A Button On A Custard Pie.