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

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

“When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.”

“Information wants to be free.”

“Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.”

“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.”

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