All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

History is the heart of humanity.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.