I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

Every life is precious, has value, a purpose, and is significant. Each life adds value to this world and to the lives of others. That value is immeasurable.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

None so blind as those who won't see.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.