108 Quotes by Stewart Brand

To change is to lose identity; yet to change is to be alive.

Science is the only news.When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science.Human nature doesn’t change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly. - Whole Earth Discipline (2009), page 216.

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

Information wants to be free.

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

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

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

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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