It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream..

We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Terri….

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole uni….

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind..

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing ro….

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, ….

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams..

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government..

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing..

The command to be free is a double bind.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power..

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks….

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really ….

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through e….

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last….

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot..

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can scr….

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance..

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their….

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends..