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The Impossible Happens.

Sharing Is Having More.

We Are Powerfully Imprisoned In These Dark Ages Simply By The Terms In Which We Have Been Conditioned To Think.

Whether We Are Able To Be A Complete Success Or Failure Is In Such Critical Balance That Every Smallest Human Test Of Integrity Every Smallest Moment-to-moment Decision Tips The Scales Affirmatively Or Negatively.

All Children Are Born Geniuses, And We Spend The First Six Years Of Their Lives Degeniusing Them.

Synergy Means Behavior Of Whole Systems Unpredicted By The Behavior Of Their Parts.

You Cannot Question An Assumption You Do Not Know You Have Made.

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Right Now I Am A Passenger On Space Vehicle Earth Zooming About The Sun At 60,000 Miles Per Hour Somewhere In The Solar System.

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The Synergetic Integral Of The Totality Of All Principles Is God, Whose Sum-total Behavior In Pure Principle Is Beyond Our Comprehension And Is Utterly Mysterious To Us, Because As Humans--in Pure Principle--we Do Not And Never Will Know All The Principles

All Of Humanity Now Has The Option To "make It" Successfully And Sustainably, By Virtue Of Our Having Minds, Discovering Principles And Being Able To Employ These Principles To Do More With Less.

Children, As Well As Grown-ups, In Their Individual, Glorified, Drudgery-proof Homes Of Labrador, The Tropics, The Orient, Or Where You Will, To Which They Can Pass With Pleasure And Expedition By Means Of Ever-improving Transportation, Will Be Able To Tune In Their Television And Radio To The Moving Picture Lecture Of, Let Us Say, President Lowell Of Harvard; The Professor Of Mathematics Of Oxford; Of The Doctor Of Indian Antiquities Of Delhi, Etc.

Integrity Is The Essence Of Everything Successful.

All Human Advances Occur In The Outlaw Area.

Whatever Humans Have Learned Had To Be Learned As A Consequence Only Of Trial And Error Experience. Humans Have Learned Only Through Mistakes.

When I'm Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty. I Think Only How To Solve The Problem.

History's Political And Economic Power Structures Have Always Abhorred 'idle People' As Potential Troublemakers. Yet Nature Never Abhors Seemingly Idle Trees, Grass, Snails, Coral Reefs, And Clouds In The Sky.

It Is One Of The Strange Facts Of Experience That When We Try To Think About The Future, Our Thoughts Jump Backwards. It May Well Be That Nature Has Some Fundamental Metaphysical Law By Which Opening Up What We Call The Future Also Opens Up The Past In Equal Degree.

Dear Reader, Traditional Human Power Structures And Their Reign Of Darkness Are About To Be Rendered Obsolete.

If Man Chooses Oblivion, He Can Go Right On Leaving His Fate To His Political Leaders. If He Chooses Utopia, He Must Initiate An Enormous Education Program - Immediately, If Not Sooner.

Human Beings Are The Only Creatures On The Planet That Tell Time And Think They Have To Earn A Living.

We Should Stop Kidding Ourselves. We Should Let Go Of Things That Aren't True. It's Always Better With The Truth.

We Are Operating At An Overall Mechanical Efficiency Of Only Four Percent... Therefore, We Find That If We Increase The Overall Mechanical Efficiency To Only Twelve Percent We Can Take Care Of Everybody. That Three-fold Increase In The Overall Efficiency Can Only Be Accomplished By Redesign.

I Live On Earth At Present, And I Don’t Know What I Am. I Know That I Am Not A Category. I Am Not A Thing — A Noun. I Seem To Be A Verb, An Evolutionary Process – An Integral Function Of The Universe.

It Is Essential That Anyone Reading This Book Know At The Outset That The Author Is Apolitical. I Was Convinced In 1927 That Humanity's Most Fundamental Survival Problems Could Never Be Solved By Politics.

I See God In The Instruments And The Mechanisms That Work Reliably, More Reliably Than The Limited Sensory Departments Of The Human Mechanism.

The Universe Consists Of Non-simultaneously Apprehended Events.

Only The Free-wheeling Artist-explorer, Non-academic, Scientist-philosopher, Mechanic, Economist-poet Who Has Never Waited For Patron-starting And Accrediting Of His Co-ordinate Capabilities Holds The Prime Initiative Today.

We Must Start With Scientific Fundamentals, And That Means With The Data Of Experiments And Not With Assumed Axioms Predicated Only Upon The Misleading Nature Of That Which Only Superficially Seems To Be Obvious. It Is The Consensus Of Great Scientists That Science Is The Attempt To Set In Order The Facts Of Experience.

I'm Utterly Convinced That We Are All Here For One Another And That Every Experience That Everyone Is Having Is Relevant. It All Counts. The Universe Is So Extraordinarily Well Designed That It Needs All Those Experiences.

God Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

Those Who Play With The Devil's Toys Will Be Brought By Degrees To Wield His Sword.

Nature Does Have Manure And She Does Have Roots As Well As Blossoms, And You Can't Hate The Manure And Blame The Roots For Not Being Blossoms.

Wealth Is A Measure Of A Person's Ability To Survive So Many Days Forward.

There Are Over 2 Million Cars Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going. Then We Have Over 2 Million Times Approximately 100 Horsepower Being Generated As They Are Idling There, So That We Have Something Like 200 Million Horses Jumping Up And Down And Going Nowhere. Now, We Have To Count That In Our Economy When We Begin To Get Down To What Is The Efficiency Of The Economy.

When Individuals Join In A Cooperative Venture, The Power Generated Far Exceeds What They Could Have Accomplished Acting Individually.

Universe Is Synergetic. Life Is Synergetic.

Fire Is The Sun Unwinding From The Tree's Log.

Each One Of Us Has Something To Contribute. This Really Depends On Each One Doing Their Own Thinking, But Not Following Any Kind Of Rule.

Of Course, Our Failures Are A Consequence Of Many Factors, But Possibly One Of The Most Important Is The Fact That Society Operates On The Theory That Specialization Is The Key To Success, Not Realizing That Specialization Precludes Comprehensive Thinking.

The Most Important Part About Tomorrow Is Not The Technology Or The Automation, But That Man Is Going To Come Into Entirely New Relationships With His Fellow Men. He Will Retain Much More In His Everyday Life Of What We Term The Naïveté And Idealism Of The Child. I Think The Way To See What Tomorrow Is Going To Look Like Is Just To Look At Our Children.

New Relationship

War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics.

Every Child Has An Enormous Drive To Demonstrate Competence.

Selfishness Is Unnecessary. War Is Obsolete.

War Is Obsolete. We Are Not Here To Fight Something Or Tear Something Down; We Are Here To Be The Example Of What Is Possible. Any Sane Individual Will Tell You That Violence Is ... Not The Way.

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

Human Beings Were Given A Left Foot And A Right Foot To Make A Mistake First To The Left, Then To The Right, Left Again And Repeat.

We Find All The No-life-support-wealth-producing People Going To Their 1980s Jobs In Their Cars And Buses, Spending Trillions Of Dollars' Worth Of Petroleum Daily To Get To Their No-wealth-producing Jobs. It Doesn't Take A Computer To Tell You That It Will Save Both Universe And Humanity Trillions Of Dollars A Day To Pay Them Handsomely To Stay At Home.

We Are Here As Local Information Harvesters, Local Problem-solvers In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe. The Fact That We Get Away From Physical Problems Doesn't Mean We Go Away From Problems. The Problems Are Really Rarely Physical.

Topology Is The Science Of Fundamental Pattern And Structural Relationships Of Event Constellations.

We Were Deliberately Designed To Learn Only By Trial And Error. We're Brought Up, Unfortunately, To Think That Nobody Should Make Mistakes. Most Children Get De-geniused By The Love And Fear Of Their Parents - That They Might Make A Mistake. But All My Advances Were Made By Mistakes. You Uncover What Is When You Get Rid Of What Isn't.

As Long As One Human Being Is Hungry, The Entire Human Race Is Hungry.

Thou Mayest As Well Expect To Grow Stronger By Always Eating As Wiser By Always Reading. Too Much Overcharges Nature, And Turns More Into Disease Than Nourishment. 'tis Thought And Digestion Which Makes Books Serviceable, And Give Health And Vigor To The Mind.

God, To Me, It Seems, Is A Verb Not A Noun, Proper Or Improper.

If You Want To Teach People A New Way Of Thinking, Don't Bother Trying To Teach Them. Instead, Give Them A Tool, The Use Of Which Will Lead To New Ways Of Thinking.

We Are Most Probably Here For Local Information-gathering And Local-universe Problem-solving In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe.

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You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More. The Reason I Know So Much Is Because I Have Made So Many Mistakes.

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Gold And Silver

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The Individual Can Take Initiatives Without Anybody's Permission. Only Individuals Can Think. Only The Individual Disregards His Fears And Commits Himself Exclusively To Reforming The Human Environment.

It Seems That Truth Is Progressive Approximation In Which The Relative Fraction Of Our Spontaneously Tolerated Residual Error Constantly Diminishes.

You Can't Learn Less.

Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

We Are Prisoners Of Our Own Metaphors, Metaphorically Speaking.

You Either Make Sense Or You Make Money.

Unity Is Plural And, At A Minimum, Is Two.

Degrees Of Accuracy Are Only Degrees Of Refinement And Magnitude In No Way Affects The Fundamental Reliability, Which Refers, As Directional Or Angular Sense, Toward Centralized Truths. Truth Is A Relationship.

I Am Convinced That Creativity Is A Priori To The Integrity Of The Universe And That Life Is Regenerative And Conformity Meaningless.

There Will Come A Time When The Proper Education Of Children, By A Glorified System Of Spontaneous Education Of Choice, Similar To The Montessori System, Will Be Made Possible.

Humans Beings Always Do The Most Intelligent Thing…after They’ve Tried Every Stupid Alternative And None Of Them Have Worked

Everything You've Learned In School As "obvious" Becomes Less And Less Obvious As You Begin To Study The Universe. For Example, There Are No Solids In The Universe. There's Not Even A Suggestion Of A Solid. There Are No Absolute Continuums. There Are No Surfaces. There Are No Straight Lines.

We Are In An Age That Assumes The Narrowing Trends Of Specialization To Be Logical, Natural, And Desirable. Consequently, Society Expects All Earnestly Responsible Communication To Be Crisply Brief.... In The Meantime, Humanity Has Been Deprived Of Comprehensive Understanding.

What The Scientists Have Always Found By Physical Experiment Was An A Priori Orderliness Of Nature, Or Universe Always Operating At An Elegance Level That Made The Discovering Scientist's Working Hypotheses Seem Crude By Comparison. The Discovered Reality Made The Scientists Exploratory Work Seem Relatively Disorderly.

A Pattern Has An Integrity Independent Of The Medium By Virtue Of Which You Have Received The Information That It Exists.

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

One Of Humanity's Prime Drives Is To Understand And Be Understood. All Other Living Creatures Are Designed For Highly Specialized Tasks. Man Seems Unique As The Comprehensive Comprehender And Co-ordinator Of Local Universe Affairs.

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.

Controlled Time Is Our True Wealth.

It Seemed That The Time Would Come Evolutionarily When Humans Might Have Acquired Enough Knowledge Of Generalized Principles To Permit A Graduation From Class-two (entropically Selfish) Evolution Into Class-one (syntropically Cooperative) Evolution, Thereafter Making All The Right Moves For All The Right Reasons.

I Am Enthusiastic Over Humanity’s Extraordinary And Sometimes Very Timely Ingenuity. If You Are In A Shipwreck And All The Boats Are Gone, A Piano Top Buoyant Enough To Keep You Afloat That Comes Along Makes A Fortuitous Life Preserver. But This Is Not To Say That The Best Way To Design A Life Preserver Is In The Form Of A Piano Top. I Think That We Are Clinging To A Great Many Piano Tops In Accepting Yesterday’s Fortuitous Contrivings As Constituting The Only Means For Solving A Given Problem.

I Look For What Needs To Be Done. After All, That's How The Universe Designs Itself.

I'm Not Trying To Copy Nature, I'm Trying To Find The Principles She's Using.

American Labor Will Realize That Its Function Is Not To Increase Jobs, But To Multiply The Wealth And To Expand The Numbers Benefited By The Wealth At The Swiftest Possible Rate.

The Difference Between Mind And Brain Is That Brain Deals Only With Memorized, Subjective, Special-case Experiences And Objective Experiments, While Mind Extracts And Employs The Generalized Principles And Integrates And Interrelates Their Effective Employment.

Real Wealth Is Ideas Plus Energy.

I'm Not A Genius. I'm Just A Tremendous Bundle Of Experience.

The Future Is A Choice Between Utopia And Oblivion.

Tombs Are The Clothes Of The Dead And A Grave Is A Plain Suit; While An Expensive Monument Is One With Embroidery.

Now There Is One Outstanding Important Fact Regarding Spaceship Earth, And That Is That No Instruction Book Came With It.

Ideas Are Easy To Come By; Reduction To Practice Is An Arduous But Inspirationally Rewarding Matter.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

[my Vision Is] To Make The World Work For 100% Of Humanity In The Shortest Possible Time Through Spontaneous Cooperation Without Ecological Offense Or The Disadvantage Of Anyone.

We Are Not Going To Be Able To Operate Our Spaceship Earth Successfully Nor For Much Longer Unless We See It As A Whole Spaceship And Our Fate As Common. It Has To Be Everybody Or Nobody.

The Word Generalization In Literature Usually Means Covering Too Much Territory Too Thinly To Be Persuasive, Let Alone Convincing. In Science, However, A Generalization Means A Principle That Has Been Found To Hold True In Every Special Case.... The Principle Of Leverage Is A Scientific Generalization.

I Would Say, Then, That You Are Faced With A Future In Which Education Is Going To Be Number One Amongst The Great World Industries.

The Dark Ages Still Reign Over All Humanity, And The Depth And Persistence Of This Domination Are Only Now Becoming Clear. This Dark Ages Prison Has No Steel Bars, Chains, Or Locks. Instead, It Is Locked By Misorientation And Built Of Misinformation. Caught Up In A Plethora Of Conditioned Reflexes And Driven By The Human Ego, Both Warden And Prisoner Attempt Meagerly To Compete With God. All Are Intractably Skeptical Of What They Do Not Understand. We Are Powerfully Imprisoned In These Dark Ages Simply By The Terms In Which We Have Been Conditioned To Think.

If You Change The Environment, You Change The People.

Technology Paces Industry, But There's A Long Lag In The Process.

People Never Leave A Sinking Ship Until They See The Lights Of Another Ship Approaching.

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?

Racism, Pollution And The Rest Of It Are Themselves Very Close To Extinction.

If Success Or Failure Of This Planet And Of Human Beings Depended On How I Am And What I Do... How Would I Be? What Would I Do?

Our Little Spaceship Earth Is Only Eight Thousand Miles In Diameter, Which Is Almost A Negligible Dimension In The Great Vastness Of Space.... Spaceship Earth Was So Extraordinarily Well Invented And Designed That To Our Knowledge Humans Have Been On Board It For Two Million Years Not Even Knowing That They Were On Board A Ship.

There Is An Effective Strategy Open To Architects. Whereas Doctors Deal With The Interior Organisms Of Man, Architects Deal With The Exterior Organisms Of Man. Architects Might Join With One Another To Carry On Their Work In Laboratories As Do Doctors In Anticipatory Medicine.

There Is No Such Thing As A Failed Experiment, Only Experiments With Unexpected Outcomes.

The Explicable Requires The Inexplicable. Experience Requires The Nonexperienceable. The Obvious Requires The Mystical.

If Humanity Does Not Opt For Integrity We Are Through Completely. It Is Absolutely Touch And Go. Each One Of Us Could Make The Difference.

It Is Essential To Release Humanity From The False Fixations Of Yesterday Which Seem Now To Bind It To A Rationale Of Action Leading Only To Extinction.

The Minute You Begin To Do What You Really Want To Do, It's Really A Different Kind Of Life.

Specialization Breeds Biases That Ultimately Aggregate As International And Ideological Discord, Which, In Turn, Leads To War.

Search Others For Their Virtue, And Yourself For Your Vices.

Don't Change The Man. Change His Environment.

God Is The Great Comprehensive A Priori Integrity Of Universe Within Which Human Beings Find Themselves To Be Operating.

Take The Initiative. Go To Work, And Above All Co-operate And Don't Hold Back On One Another Or Try To Gain At The Expense Of Another. Any Success In Such Lopsidedness Will Be Increasingly Short-lived. These Are The Synergetic Rules That Evolution Is Employing And Trying To Make Clear To Us. They Are Not Man-made Laws. They Are The Infinitely Accommodative Laws Of The Intellectual Integrity Governing Universe.

You Can Rest Assured That If You Devote Your Time And Attention To The Highest Advantage Of Others, The Universe Will Support You, Always And Only In The Nick Of Time.

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

Are You Spontaneously Enthusiastic About Everyone Having Everything You Can Have?

I Have Spent Most Of My Life Unlearning Things That Were Proved Not To Be True

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Solved Theoretically And Immediately, And Therefore Subsequently To Be Solved, Realistically.

It Is Well Known That Of Every Strong Woman They Say She Has A Masculine Mind.

For Man To Go From Less Than 1% Haves To 40%, Living At High Standard - Despite Decreasing Resources - Cannot Be Explained By Anything Other Than By Doing More Than Less.

The Most Important Thing To Teach Your Children Is That The Sun Does Not Rise And Set. It Is The Earth That Revolves Around The Sun. Then Teach Them The Concepts Of North, South, East And West, And That They Relate To Where They Happen To Be On The Planet's Surface At That Time. Everything Else Will Follow.

Synergy Is The Only Word In Our Language That Means Behavior Of Whole Systems Unpredicted By The Separately Observed Behaviors Of Any Of The System's Separate Parts Or Any Subassembly Of The System's Parts.

You Can't Change The Way People Think, All You Can Do Is Give Them A Tool, The Use Of Which Will Change Their Thinking.

His Unique Selling Position Was To Make The World Work For 100% Of Humanity. .

The Question Of Integrity Will Get Finer And Finer And More Delicate And More Beautiful.

Integrity Is The Courage And Self-discipline To Cooperate And Initiate According To The Divine, Which You Know In Your Heart As Truth.

Wealth Is The Product Of Energy Times Intelligence: Energy Turned Into Artifacts That Advantage Human Life.

There Is Nothing In A Caterpillar That Tells You It's Going To Be A Butterfly.

Whether Humanity Is To Comprehensively Prosper...depends Entirely On The Integrity Of The Human Individuals And Not On The Political And Economic Systems. The Cosmic Question Has Been Asked: Are Humans Worthwhile To Universe Invention?

It Is A Fact Today That One In Ten Thousand Of Us Can Make A Technological Breakthrough Capable Of Supporting All The Rest.

The Eternal Is Omniembracing And Permeative; And The Temporal Is Linear. This Opens Up A Very High Order Of Generalizations Of Generalizations. The Truth Could Not Be More Omni-important, Although It Is Often Manifestly Operative Only As A Linear Identification Of A Special-case Experience On A Specialized Subject.

Everyone Is Born A Genius.

My Ideas Have Undergone A Process Of Emergence By Emergency. When They Are Needed Badly Enough, They Are Accepted.

There Are No Solids. There Are No Things. There Are Only Interfering And Non-interfering Patterns Operative In Pure Principle, And Principles Are Eternal.

Conceptuality Is Subjective; Realization Is Objective.

There Is Enough For Everyone. People Think That There Isn't Enough, So They Get As Much As They Can, So Many People Don't Have Enough.

In Order For A World-around Democracy To Prosper, World Society Must Learn How To Prosper.

I Have To Say, I Think That We Are In Some Kind Of Final Examination As To Whether Human Beings Now, With This Capability To Acquire Information And To Communicate, Whether We're Really Qualified To Take On The Responsibility We're Designed To Be Entrusted With. And This Is Not A Matter Of An Examination Of The Types Of Governments, Nothing To Do With Politics, Nothing To Do With Economic Systems. It Has To Do With The Individual. Does The Individual Have The Courage To Really Go Along With The Truth?

Either Man Is Obsolete Or War Is. War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics. Political Leaders Look Out Only For Their Own Side. Politicians Are Always Realistically Maneuvering For The Next Election. They Are Obsolete As Fundamental Problem-solvers.

That Which Is Communicated, I.e., Understood, Is Metaphysical. The Means Of Communication Is Physical.

At First The, Only Subconsciously Apprehended, Approaching Confluences Of Complex Events Make Themselves Known Intuitively Within The Intellectual Weather. Then Comes A Gradually Awakening Consciousness Of The Presence Of New Families Of Differentiating-out Challenging Concepts Of Every Day Prominence. It Is With These Randomly Patterning Families Of Separate Concepts That Evolution Is About To Deal Integratively. As A Now Specific Unitary Problem It May Be Disposed Of Effectively When And If That Unified Problem Becomes "adequately Stated" And Thereby Comprehensibly Solvable.

We Speak Erroneously Of "artificial" Materials, "synthetics", And So Forth. The Basis For This Erroneous Terminology Is The Notion That Nature Has Made Certain Things Which We Call Natural, And Everything Else Is "man-made", Ergo Artificial. But What One Learns In Chemistry Is That Nature Wrote All The Rules Of Structuring; Man Does Not Invent Chemical Structuring Rules; He Only Discovers The Rules. All The Chemist Can Do Is Find Out What Nature Permits, And Any Substances That Are Thus Developed Or Discovered Are Inherently Natural. It Is Very Important To Remember That.

Humanity Is Now Experiencing History's Most Difficult Evolutionary Transformation.

The Things To Do Are: The Things That Need Doing: That You See Need To Be Done, And That No One Else Seems To See Need To Be Done. Then You Will Conceive Your Own Way Of Doing That Which Needs To Be Done - That No One Else Has Told You To Do Or How To Do It. This Will Bring Out The Real You That Often Gets Buried Inside A Character That Has Acquired A Superficial Array Of Behaviors Induced Or Imposed By Others On The Individual.

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.

Love Is A Metaphysical Gravity.

Think Of It. We Are Blessed With Technology That Would Be Indescribable To Our Forefathers. We Have The Wherewithal, The Know-it-all To Feed Everybody, Clothe Everybody, And Give Every Human On Earth A Chance. We Know Now What We Could Never Have Known Before - That We Now Have The Option For All Humanity To Make It Successfully On This Planet In This Lifetime. Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.

The More We Learn The More We Realize How Little We Know.

You Can't Better The World By Simply Talking To It. Philosophy To Be Effective Must Be Mechanically Applied.

What Humans Have Spontaneously Identified As Good And Bad - Or As Positive And Negative - Are Evolutionary Complementations In Need Of More Accurate Identifications.

All Sports Are Time Control Demonstrations.

Seeing-is-believing Is A Blind Spot In Man's Vision.

It Is The Integrity Of Each Individual Human That Is In Final Examination. On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate.

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.

Bite Your Tongue. Get A Cinder In Your Eye. When You Feel Good, You Feel Nothing.

Havenotness Is Caused By Society's Failure To Design And Produce The Right Tools And Goods. Money Alone Is Not The Panacea.

What Has Not Been Clear Is That The Potential Of This Emergency-born Technology Has Always Accrued To Human's Prewar Individual Initiatives Taken In A Humble But Irrepressible Progression Of Assumptions, Measurements, Deductions, And Codifications Of Pure Science.

By And Large, I Seem To Have Made More Mistakes Than Any Others Of Whom I Know, But Have Learned Thereby To Make Ever Swifter Acknowledgment Of The Errors And Thereafter Immediately Set About To Deal More Effectively With The Truths Disclosed By The Acknowledgment Of Erroneous Assumptions.

The Assumption Is That The Inevitability Of A Solution's Realization Is Inherent In The Interaction Of Human Intellect And The Constantly Transformative Evolution Of Physical Universe.

How Do We Make The World Work?

It Is One Of Our Most Exciting Discoveries That Local Discovery Leads To A Complex Of Further Discoveries. Corollary To This We Find That We No Sooner Get A Problem Solved Than We Are Overwhelmed With A Multiplicity Of Additional Problems In A Most Beautiful Payoff Of Heretofore Unknown, Previously Unrecognized, & As-yet Unsolved Problems.

By 2000, Politics Will Simply Fade Away. We Will Not See Any Political Parties.

Consisting Mostly Of Recirculating Scrapped Metals, 80% Of All The Metals That Have Ever Been Mined Are Still At Work.

Every Time Man Makes A New Experiment He Always Learns More. He Cannot Learn Less. He May Learn That What He Thought Was True Was Not True. By The Elimination Of A False Premise, His Basic Capital Wealth Which In His Given Lifetime Is Disembarrassed Of Further Preoccupation With Considerations Of How To Employ A Worthless Time-consuming Hypothesis. Freeing His Time For Its More Effective Exploratory Investment Is To Give Man Increased Wealth.

The Vector Equilibrium Is The Zero Point For Happenings Or Nonhappenings: It Is The Empty Theater And Empty Circus And Empty Universe Ready To Accommodate Any Act And Any Audience.

We Must Do Away With The Absolutely Specious Notion That Everybody Has To Earn A Living.

Earning A Living

We Must Progress To The Stage Of Doing All The Right Things For All The Right Reasons Instead Of Doing All The Right Things For All The Wrong Reasons.

You Have To Decide Whether You Want To Make Money Or Make Sense, Because The Two Are Mutually Exclusive.

If We Do More With Less, Our Response Will Be Adequate To Take Care Of Everybody.

There Is No Such Thing As Genius, Some Children Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

Here Is An Educational Bombshell: Take From All Of Today's Industrial Nations All Their Industrial Machinery And All Their Energy-distributing Networks, And Leave Them All Their Ideologies, All Their Political Leaders, And All Their Political Organizations, And I Can Tell You That Within Six Months, Two Billion People Will Die Of Starvation, Having Gone Through Great Pain And Deprivation Along The Way.

We Are Called To Be Architects Of The Future, Not Its Victims.

If Humans Are Not Required To Earn A Living To Be Provided Survival Needs, Many Are Going To Want Very Much To Be Productive, But Not At Those Tasks They Did Not Choose To Do But Were Forced To Accept In Order To Earn Money. Instead, Humans Will Spontaneously Take Upon Themselves Those Tasks That World Society Really Needs To Have Done.

It Is New Design By Architects Versus World Revolution By Political Leadership.

How Much Does Your Building Weigh? A Question Often Used To Challenge Architects To Consider How Efficiently Materials Were Used For The Space Enclosed.

Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

All Children Are Born Geniuses; 9,999 Out Of Every 10,000 Are Swiftly, Inadvertently Degeniusized By Grownups.

Ignorance And Greed Are Part Of The Evolutionary Process, Which Is Just To Say That Mistakes Are Part Of Learning. There Is Nothing Bad About Behaviors Or Perceptions That Do Not Work; They Simply Have To Be Given Up And Replaced By Behaviors Or Perceptions That Do Work.

Don't Fight Forces, Use Them.

Use It Or Lose It

Never Show Unfinished Work.

Unfinished Work

There Is No Joy Equal To That Of Being Able To Work For All Humanity And Doing What You're Doing Well.

Don't Try To Make Me Consistent. I Am Learning All The Time.

Inspirational Life

A Proverb Is Much Matter Distilled Into Few Words.

We Live In A Decaying Age. Young People No Longer Respect Their Parents. They Are Rude And Impatient. They Frequently Inhabit Taverns And Have No Self Control.

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