Quotes by Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you’d use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

Inspiration

Motivation

Squares

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

Library

Needs

Window

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down – but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

Emotional

God

Soul

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don’t want. It’s like a cigarette tax.

Able

Cigarette

Want

Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

Believe

Fighting

Giving Up

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

Computer

Convenient

Humans

Every interview with a public figure should include the question “What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?” The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

Answers

Honest

Views

For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.

Artist

Cutting

Technology

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

Bacteria

Ifs

Planets

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

Cost

Information

Want

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Able

Answers

Artist

Bacteria

Believe

Cases

Cigarette

Computer

Convenient

Cost

Cutting

Drama

Emotional

Ends

Energy

Environmental

Fashion

Fighting

Fool

Four

Free Speech

Games

Giving Up

God

Growth

Hands

Honest

Humans

Ifs

Influence

Information

Inspiration

Internet

Issues

Kind

Labyrinth

Law

Library

Men

Might

Motivation

Needs

Planets

Poverty

Sight

Song

Soul

Squares

Style

Technology

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Quotes by Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you’d use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

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

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down – but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don’t want. It’s like a cigarette tax.

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

Every interview with a public figure should include the question “What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?” The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.

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

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

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