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

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

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

You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Redefine the possible.

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

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

Function reforms form, perpetually.

We can influence the future but not see it.

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

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

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

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

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

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

Reinventing beats inventing nearly every time.