Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand
Stewart Brandis an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 December 1938
CountryUnited States of America
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Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?
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If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.
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Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
night timeless periods
Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.
influence
We can influence the future but not see it.
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In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.
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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.
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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.
art conventions
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
information cases
You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
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There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.