Knowledge Is The Key To

The Next 10 Years Could Be The Most Important In The Next 10,000.

The End Of Commercial Fishing Is Predicted Long Before The Middle Of The 21st Century.

Since The Middle Of The 20th Century, More Has Been Learnt About The Ocean Than During All Preceding Human History; At The Same Time, More Has Been Lost.

We Still Have The Illusion That The Ocean Will Recover. That Even If We Do Have To Lose Sharks, People Don't Understand Why This Matters. The Evidence Is In Front Of Us, And We Fail To Take It In And Say, "now I Get It. Now I Understand."

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.