[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

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.

Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior

Even in our perfection we are Broken.

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.