We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

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.

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Of course {I'm bisexual}. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!

Just do whatever you want to in life. One day tomorrow won't be there.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.