Stewart Brand Quotes - Page 2

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• When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

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  Inspirational, Generations, Might

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• Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

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  Dark, Age, Statistics

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.92, Basic Books

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• The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

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  Technology, Law, Four

  "The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. February, 2013.

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• When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

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  Inspirational, Fantasy, God And Nature

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• Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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  Art, Conventions

  Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.110, Penguin

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• Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

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  Want, Watches, Culture

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• Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Fighting

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.223, Penguin

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• There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

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  Sight, Labyrinth, Kind

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• Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

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  Civilization, Environmental, Attention

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.141, Basic Books

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• As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

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  God, Emotional, Soul

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• You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

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  Information, Cases

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• Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

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  Want, Information, Expensive

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• Information wants to be free.

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  Want, Information, Internet

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 18 Nov. 1984

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• The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

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  Song, Men, Games

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• There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

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  Cities, Humanity, Unemployment

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• Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

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  Years, Growth, Environmental

  "Environmental Heresies". www.technologyreview.com. May 1, 2005.

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• If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

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  Bacteria, Planets, Ifs

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.187, Penguin

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• Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

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  California, Southern, Desert

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• One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

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  Space, Light, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

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  Environmental, World, Poverty

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.41, Penguin

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• When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.

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  Running, Ideas, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

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  Want, Able, Cigarette

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.

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  Technology, Issues, Energy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Squares

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• The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

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  Earth, Problem, Surface

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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