Information wants to be free.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

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

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

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

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.