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

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

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

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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

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, because that world is suffused with our absence.

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!