How Buildings Learn: What Happens After...
A source page for quotes linked to Stewart Brand.
“If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.”
“We can influence the future but not see it.”
“Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.”
“When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.”
“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
“You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.”
“Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.”
“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”
“A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.”
“Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.”
“Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student”
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”