Stewart Brand Quotes

Information wants to be free.

Information wants to be free.

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...

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

About Author

Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American project developer and writer, best known as the co-founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has founded a number of organizations, including the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.

Stewart Brand Quotes

Information wants to be free.

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...

About Author

Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purit...

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...

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

I’m a lifelong environmentalist. My voice piped at age ten: I give my pledge as an American to save and faithfully to defend from waste the natural resources of my country—its air, soil, and minerals,...

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...

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.

When Brian Eno approached the father of Anthea Norman-Taylor for permission to marry her, he was told, What you have to ask yourself is, ‘Would I wish this woman to be the grandmother of my grandchild...

Function reforms form, perpetually.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. Any

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...

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

Buildings keep being pushed around by three irresistible forces—technology, money, and fashion.

The mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson makes a related observation about human society: The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survi...

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...

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...

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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

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