All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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

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.

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

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

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.