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

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.

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.

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

COINS are for LAZY PEOPLE to DECIDE and for WISE MEN to INVEST.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.