As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

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.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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.

Without the patient, there is no healthcare.

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

Attractive things work better.

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.