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. — 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 politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change… — Stewart Brand Copy Share
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
