Das Problem sind nicht die neuen Ideen. Das Problem ist, wie wir uns von den alten Ideen lösen können.

Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Grundregel anscheinend lautet, dass wir umso weniger zum BIP beitragen, je wichtiger unsere Tätigkeit für die Gesellschaft ist.

Das Regieren nach Zahlen ist die letzte Zuflucht eines Landes, das nicht mehr weiß, was es will und keinerlei Utopie mehr hat.

Je näher die Welt zusammenrückt, desto kleiner wird die Zahl der Gewinner.

Wir brauchen eine Umverteilung der Einkommen (Grundeinkommen), der Zeit (Arbeitszeitverkürzung), der Steuern (Besteuerung des Kapitals statt der Arbeit) und der Roboter.

Die reichsten 8% besitzen die Hälfte des globalen Einkommens.

Die reichsten 1% besitzen mehr als die Hälfte des gesamten Vermögens der Menschheit.

Die ärmste Milliarde hat 1% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Der reichsten Milliarde hat 72% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Wenn wir die Welt zu einem besseren Ort machen wollen, führt kein Weg daran vorbei, die Grenzen für die Migranten zu beseitigen.

Intelligente Menschen nutzen ihren Verstand nicht, um die richtige Antwort zu finden. Sie nutzen ihn, um die Antwort zu finden, die ihnen gefällt.

Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnern kann, ist dazu verurteilt, sie zu wiederholen.

Unser Ziel sollte nicht ein vollkommenes Utopia sein, sondern eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Hoffnung lebendig sind.

Nichts ist stärker, als eine Idee, deren Zeit gekommen ist.

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

I can't even sleep in. My body won't let me.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word gender does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

The colour of fear is never dark or black it has the colour of thunderbolt usually white but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart.

Theres no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So theyre a necessary evil in that sense.

It's always the story that interests me.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.