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

- Stewart Brand

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…

- Stewart Brand

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

- Stewart Brand

We can influence the future but not see it.

- Stewart Brand

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…

- Stewart Brand

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

- Stewart Brand

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

- Stewart Brand

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…

- Stewart Brand

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

- Stewart Brand