All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.

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

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.