We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential – for as at present used, or designed, the world’s resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry – from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.