Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly.
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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.
- Roger Clarke, "Information Wants to be Free", (online).
- We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
- Opening sentence of the Purpose of the 1968 Whole Earth Catalog.