“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
“The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.”
| Herb Alpert, Musician (1935) |
| Alejandro Amenabar, Director (1972) |
| Dennis Cardoza, Politician (1959) |
| William Daniels, Actor (1927) |
| Rene Descartes, Mathematician (1596) |
| Edward Fitzgerald, Poet (1809) |
| Robert Hamer, Director (1911) |
| John Jakes, Writer (1932) |
| Jack Johnson, Athlete (1878) |
| Shirley Jones, Actress (1933) |
| Bella Abzug, Lawyer (1998) |
| Eugenie Anderson, Diplomat (1997) |
| Enid Bagnold, Author (1981) |
| John C. Calhoun, Statesman (1850) |
| Tim Flock, Celebrity (1998) |
| Brandon Lee, Actor (1993) |