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
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. — 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
