We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

Want to change the world? Get creative and solve problems. The world has too many factory workers and too few problem solvers.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.