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

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

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.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

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