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.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

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

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

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

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

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