The semiconductor industry has few equals when it comes to resource conservation and minimizing its environmental impact. Through these and other activities, ISMI will continue to work in that tradition.

The semiconductor industry is very, very cyclical; and when things are good - which they are now - they're always better than were expected. Of course, when things turn down, they always hit harder than anybody would have guessed. And right now what's happening on Wall Street is a lot of people are trying to kind of guess the top: are we there yet? There's really no way to tell.

Evolution and the resulting environmental changes are the practice and invention of Mother Nature known as "conservation" - not the practice of man's invention known as preservation.

We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to refuse to define our individuality by our presumed ability to do whatever we want.

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don’t have any other instruction.

Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
« Gardez votre eau bien propre. »
« N’empestez pas l’air, vous allez étouffer. »
« Comment allez-vous ? »
« Plantez des fleurs. »
« Ne coupez pas trop d’arbres, ils vous protègent. »
Et encore des messages, tous les jours un ou deux et même des fois plus, sur des avions de toutes les couleurs.
« Ne mettez pas trop d’engrais. »
« Ne vous lavez pas dans les ruisseaux avec vos gros savons rouges. »
« Ne vous en faites pas pour moi, je vais bien. »
Les gens s’habituaient lentement à cette nouvelle vie et suivaient tous les conseils des avions de papier.
Ils trouvaient aussi des trucs eux-mêmes et les trouvaient bien meilleurs que ceux du grand. C’était bien normal.