I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

...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.

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

[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 not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.