In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

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.

As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts.

Pushing away unwanted feelings and situations, equals inviting them to return back with a greater strength.

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.