Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

[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.

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

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

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.

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.

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