Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

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

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

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

We can influence the future but not see it.

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.