If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

I run New York City!

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

I feel like I’m a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go – I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it’s like, ‚Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.‘

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.