Stewart Brand

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old…

— Stewart Brand

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It…

— Stewart Brand

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

— Stewart Brand

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect,…

— Stewart Brand

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

— Stewart Brand

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

— Stewart Brand

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

— Stewart Brand

“If you on't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.”

— Stewart Brand

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

— Stewart Brand

“Since the soon-to-be outnumber the living; since the living have greater impact on the unborn than ever before thanks to depletion of…

— Stewart Brand

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

— Stewart Brand

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

— Stewart Brand

Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

— Stewart Brand

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of…

— Stewart Brand

Information wants to be free.

— Stewart Brand

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

“Reinventing beats inventing nearly every time.”

— Stewart Brand

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and…

— Stewart Brand

Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the…

— Stewart Brand

“Eternity is the opposite of a long time.”

— Stewart Brand

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning…

— Stewart Brand

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future…

— Stewart Brand

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

— Stewart Brand

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

— Stewart Brand

Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your…

— Stewart Brand