The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It… — 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… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of… — 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… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005,… — 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