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

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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

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 can influence the future but not see it.

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