Community Quote by Joe Quirk

If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads…

— Joe Quirk

Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a…

— Joe Quirk

I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive…

— Joe Quirk

Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in…

— Joe Quirk

“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.”

— Joe Quirk

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

— Joe Quirk

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

— Joe Quirk

Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas,…

— Joe Quirk

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

— Joe Quirk

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

— Joe Quirk

Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they…

— Joe Quirk

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

— Joe Quirk