Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

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 priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

It doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.