Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

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

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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

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.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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.

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.