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

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

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

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.

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.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

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