Inland Empire

 "Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau

Signs placed on the 91, 10 and 15 in San Bernardino County.

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the  lives of others."  - Pericles

 "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -Leonardo da Vinci

 "Active Evil is better than Passive Good." - William Blake

 "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." Max Planck

 "Life is what happens when you're making other plans." - John Lennon

Total - 6,759

Northern California

"Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore." - Al Gore

Signs placed alongside freeways around the Bay Area.

  "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw

 "Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them." - Niels Bohr

 "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious." - George Orwell

 “There is no God and we are his prophets.” – Cormac McCarthy

TOTAL - 6,751

Southern California

 "Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." - Don DeLillo

 Signs placed over and alongside freeways in Southern California.

 "You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit." - Paulo Coelho

 "Here we are, stuck by this river...

You and I underneath a sky 

that's ever falling down..."

-Brian Eno

 "It is better to conquer yourself than win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or demons, heaven or hell." - Gautama Buddha

“The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

 "What really matters is what you do with what you have." - H.G. Wells

TOTAL - 6,742

Orange County

 "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci

 Signs placed on Interstates 5 and 405 in Orange County, California.

 "Lifelong dissent has more than acclimated me cheerfully to defeat." - I.F. Stone

  "It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it." - W. Somerset Maugham

 "Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames." - John F. Kennedy

 "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." - Yogi Berra

Total - 6,732

Berkeley

"Rich people march on Washington every day." - I.F. Stone

Signs placed on Interstate 80 in Berkeley, California.

 "The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. Both are illusions." - Eckhart Tolle

 "These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain,

Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain." - Talib Kweli

 "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 "History never looks like history when you're living through it." - John W. Gardner

 "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" - Christopher Marlowe

Total - 6,724

San Francisco

 "If everyone acted as the San Franciscans did, there would be hope for settlement of the world’s difficulties." - Frol Zozlov 

 Signs placed on US 101 and Interstate 280 in San Francisco.

 "San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every house a poem, every dweller within immortal." - William Saroyan

 "It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attraction of the next world." - Oscar Wilde

 "San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful." - Frank Lloyd Wright

 "Forty-Nine square miles surrounded by reality..." - Paul Kantner

TOTAL - 6716