“Moreover, in a hundred years, I thought, reaching my own doorstep, women will have ceased to be the protected sex. Logically they will take part in all the activities and exertions that were once denied them. The nursemaid will heave coal. The shop-woman will drive an engine. All assumptions founded on the facts observed when women were the protected sex will have disappeared — as, for example (here a squad of soldiers marched down the street), that women and clergymen and gardeners live longer than other people. Remove that protection, expose them to the same exertions and activities, make them soldiers and sailors and engine-drivers and dock labourers, and will not women die off so much younger, so much quicker, than men that one will say, 'I saw a woman today,' as one used to say, 'I saw an aeroplane.' Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

“[...] we have been expressly evolved by nature — with all our impulses and deepest instincts — for the purpose of solving the economic problem. If the economic problem is solved, mankind will be deprived of its traditional purpose. Will this be a benefit? If one believes at all in the real values of life, the prospect at least opens up the possibility of benefit. Yet I think with dread of the readjustment of the habits and instincts of the ordinary man, bred into him for countless generations, which he may be asked to discard within a few decades.”

“In terms of the internet, nothing has happened yet. The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning. If we could climb into a time machine and journey 30 years into the future, and from that vantage look back to today, we'd realize that most of the greatest products running the lives of citizens in 2044 were not invented until after 2014.”

“If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.”

“Les Nouveaux Gnostiques ne peuvent prouver qu'aux XXIe et XXIIe siècles la science ne trouvera pas de nouvelles sources d'énergie pour remplacer le pétrole, mais prouvent que l'on se fait illusion quand on croit le problème des énergies nouvelles aussi facile à résoudre que celui d'envoyer des hommes dans la Lune, et quand on attend des savants qu'ils inventent des forces motrices comme ils inventent des mécanismes ou des ordinateurs.”

“The Inter-Parliamentary Union estimates that there were about 5,500 women in parliament worldwide in spring 2002, representing 14.3% of all members, up from 9% in 1987. If growth at this level is maintained (0.36% per annum), a simple linear projection predicts that women parliamentarians will achieve parity with men at the turn of the twenty-second century.”