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

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.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Redefine the possible.

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.

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.

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