“ When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away. Stewart Brand
“ Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. Stewart Brand
“ Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century. Stewart Brand
“ If the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for surviv… Stewart Brand
“ In the genre of science fiction it is more important to be fruitfully mistaken than dully accurate. That’s why we are science fiction writers, not scientists. Stewart Brand
“ Buildings keep being pushed around by three irresistible forces—technology, money, and fashion. Stewart Brand
“ Whole Earth Discipline carries on something that began in 1968, when I founded the Whole Earth Catalog. I stayed with the Catalog as editor and publisher until 1984, adding a magazine called CoEvoluti… Stewart Brand
“ Science has long informed the environmental movement. Now it must take the lead, because we are forced to enter an era of large-scale ecosystem engineering, and we have to know what the hell we’re doi… Stewart Brand
“ For the next century could raise the world’s temperature some 4°C (7.2°F), bringing serious coastal flooding and other damage. The Conservation Foundation urged renewed funding for Keeling’s CO 2 proj… Stewart Brand
“ We are convinced by things that show internal complexity, that show the traces of an interesting evolution. Those signs tell us that we might be rewarded if we accord it our trust. An important aspect… Stewart Brand
“ The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as temporal exhaustion: If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagi… Stewart Brand
“ Unfortunately for the atmosphere, environmentalists helped stop carbon-free nuclear power cold in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and Europe. (Except for France, which fortunately responded t… Stewart Brand
