Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer wil….

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

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

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..

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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