The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard … - Stewart Brand

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The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

Stewart Brand

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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Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

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The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

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

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

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