Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

I am happy to see you, Maso

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

When I was in a meeting, I got advice that was someone telling me that in order to be successful, I needed to create the character Mac Miller that couldn't be the same person as who I really was.

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.