For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previou….

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window..

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can..

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and ec….

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, becaus….

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end..

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road..

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time..

We are as gods and might as well get good at it..

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers..

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time..

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student.

Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my….

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 ….

Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from….

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of ….

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's ex….

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start..

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to re….

We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our vall….