The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of 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.

Where Love Leads, Hatred Cannot Follow.

Once you the forces that govern behavior, it's harder to blame the behaver

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

Laugh every day as much as you can.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.