Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.
All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
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.