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

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.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions." Discard 2

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

If your soul dances, your body follows

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.