Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.” — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep.… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Since the soon-to-be outnumber the living; since the living have greater impact on the unborn than ever before thanks to depletion of natural systems,… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
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