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

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

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

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

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.

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.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.