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

[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.

We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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

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