When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

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.

Democracy

If love disappear forever, a veil of sadness, falls over the valley of dried tears.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

Come cook food with me and do nothing.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.