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

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

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

We can influence the future but not see it.

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

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 valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

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.