Stewart Brand Quotes

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• Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. Inspirational
• The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely… Accelerating
• When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. Fantasy
• Information wants to be free. Free
• We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live… Age
• Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. Art
• A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. Inspirational
• 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… Accrues
• If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can. All
• There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth. Beacon
• Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation,… Ability
• You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one. Belong
• Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Attention
• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. All
• A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start. Building
• There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that. Cities
• 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… Apocalypse
• Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. Expensive
• How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way? Inspirational
• Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s. Age

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