Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them. — 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
