"On the one hand information wants to be……" — Stewart Brand
"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
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33 Quotes by Stewart Brand
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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.
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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
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There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the…
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Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now,…
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You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
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