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.

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.

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.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

It's good to be alive.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

I hate being the subject of photographs.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.