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 economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

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

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

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

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

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

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.