Stewart Brand Quotes

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

Tool – something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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.

Whenever I hear the word “share” I would reach for a gun if I had one. “Share” is frequently followed by the word “feelings”, and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

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

Redefine the possible.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

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.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

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.