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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He floated the idea -- he put up the money and the machine. Then he basically let what would happen happen.
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I'd like to see RAD DECISION widely read.
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What the world has now are new cities with young populations and old cities with old populations. How the dialogue between them plays out will determine much of the nature of the next half-century.
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It's almost certain that half of the books that bent my young mind, I got from there.
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I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.
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In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.
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The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.
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Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student
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Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
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[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.
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When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
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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.
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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.