Quotes by Stewart Brand

About Stewart Brand:

Stewart Brand is 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.
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Stewart Brand

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

Stewart Brand

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.

Stewart Brand

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 di...

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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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Information wants to be free.

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Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.

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

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

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Author Bio

  • NameStewart Brand
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornDecember 14, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEssayist; Author
  • AwardsNational Book Award