Stewart Brand Quotes

United States, Writer
December 14, 1938

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.

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

Stewart Brand
- Start
- Building
- Finish
There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

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- Sight
- Draw
- Labyrinth

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

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

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- Good
- Gods
- Get
Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

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- Free
- Information
- Cost
We can influence the future but not see it.

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- Future
- See
- Influence
Redefine the possible.

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- Possible
- Redefine
A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Stewart Brand
- Need
- Library
- Window

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

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- Use
- Tool
- Grasp
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Stewart Brand
- Art
- Works
- Convention