Stewart Brand Quotes

• Una vez que una nueva tecnología te pasa por encima, si no formas parte de la apisonadora, eres parte del camino.

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  Technology, Service Culture, Over You

  The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT ch. 1 (1987)

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

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  Library, Needs, Window

  How Buildings Learn ch. 3 (1994)

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• The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

  Marca Stewart

  Time, Powerful, Stress

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

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  Might, Wells

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary”, p.1, Penguin

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• We can influence the future but not see it.

  Marca Stewart

  Influencia

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.127, Basic Books

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• A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

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  Edificio

  Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.327, Penguin

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

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  Computer, Humans, Convenient

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• The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

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  World, Problem, Absence

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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.

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  Views, Answers, Honest

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.243, Penguin

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• On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

  Marca Stewart

  Fighting, Hands, Two

  “Hackers” and “Information Wants to Be Free” by Steven Levy, medium.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

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  Tools, Use, Ends

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• Redefine the possible.

  Marca Stewart

  Internet, Free Speech

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• How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

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  Unhappy, Way

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Technology, Artist

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• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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  Building, Predictions

  Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.311, Penguin

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• Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

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  Years, Extinction, Lasts

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• Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

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  Fashion, Drama, Technology

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• Si toda la electricidad de tu vida procediera de la energía nuclear, los residuos de esa electricidad irían a parar a una lata de Coca-Cola.

  Marca Stewart

  Motivation, Inspiration, Energy

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• Se trata de explorar todo aquello que pueda ser útil para pensar, comprender y actuar de forma responsable durante largos periodos de tiempo.

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  Thinking, Long, Understanding

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.12, Basic Books

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• Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

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  Divertido, listo, inteligente

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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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  Good Friend, Hard Times, Survival

  "The Whole Earth Epilog: Access To Tools". Book by Stewart Brand, 1974.

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• Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

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  Growth, Style, Fool

  Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.233, Penguin

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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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  Cost, Want, Information

  Whole Earth Review, May 1985.

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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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  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• Los ecófobos hemos deseado que llegara una catástrofe o un cambio social y nos bombardeara hasta la Edad de Piedra, donde podríamos vivir como indios en nuestro valle, con nuestro localismo, nuestra tecnología apropiada, nuestros huertos, nuestra religión casera... ¡por fin libres de culpa!

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  Technology, Garden, Age

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