"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.……" — Stewart Brand
"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."
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33 Quotes by Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand has 33 quotes on this site.
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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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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that…
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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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Information wants to be free.
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We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone…
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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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Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the…
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If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would…
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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