Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

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.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either, ” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

You can never complain your way into a happy successful life.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.