There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

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.

The power of our subconscious thoughts and desires attracts good luck.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

I don't consider myself to have a style or anything, I just do what I like to do and I try to do it best!

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.