I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few people about v….

That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversat….

It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very ….

My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, t….

I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do ….

The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can start talking about how you manage th….

I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public discourse in which anything and everything a….

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible..

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite..

We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have ….

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need..

I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complic….

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing..

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basic….

I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrari….

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another..

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress..

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have..

Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And tha….

Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sor….

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails..