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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.

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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.

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Never Show Unfinished Work.

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Love Is A Metaphysical Gravity.

I'm Not Trying To Counsel Any Of You To Do Anything Really Special Except Dare To Think. And To Dare To Go With The Truth. And To Dare To Really Love Completely.

To Ask A Politician To Lead Us Is To Ask The Tail Of A Dog To Lead The Dog.

Humanity Is Acquiring All The Right Technology For All The Wrong Reasons.

Technologically We Now Have Four [seven!] Billion Billionaires On Board Spaceship Earth Who Are Entirely Unaware Of Their Good Fortune.

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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.

I Am Deeply Impressed With The Designer Of The Universe; I Am Confident I Couldnt Have Done Anywhere Near Such A Good Job.

Everything Can Be Linked Together In Some Fashion, In Either A Physical, Psychological, Or Symbolic Manner.

No Man Can Prove Upon Awakening That He Is The Man Who He Thinks Went To Bed The Night Before, Or That Anything That He Recollects Is Anything Other Than A Convincing Dream.

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

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.

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.

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

Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place.

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.

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.

It Is Now Highly Feasible To Take Care Of Everybody On Earth At A 'higher Standard Of Living Than Any Have Ever Known.' It No Longer Has To Be You Or Me. Selfishness Is Unnecessary And Henceforth Unrationalizable As Mandated By Survival.

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Man Knows So Much And Does So Little.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

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.

How Often I Found Where I Should Be Going Only By Setting Out For Somewhere Else.

All Of Humanity Is In Peril Of Extinction If Each One Of Us Does Not Dare, Now And Henceforth, Always To Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And To Do So Promptly - Right Now.

Our Beds Are Empty Two-thirds Of The Time. Our Living Rooms Are Empty Seven-eighths Of The Time. Our Office Buildings Are Empty One-half Of The Time. It's Time We Gave This Some Thought.

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

The One Common Experience Of All Humanity Is The Challenge Of Problems.

The Reward For Being A Good Problem Solver Is To Be Heaped With More And More Difficult Problems To Solve

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

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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.

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

I Have Great Hope For Tomorrow. My Hope Lies In Three Things-truth, Youth, And Love.

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

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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.

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

Always Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And Do So Promptly - Right Now.

Nature Is Trying Very Hard To Make Us Succeed, But Nature Does Not Depend On Us. We Are Not The Only Experiment.

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.

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All Human Advances Occur In The Outlaw Area.

The Nearest Each Of Us Can Come To God Is By Loving The Truth.

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

I Call Intuition Cosmic Fishing. You Feel A Nibble, Then You've Got To Hook The Fish.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate

We Will Always Have War Until There Is Enough Of Every Essential To Support All Lives Everywhere Around Earth.

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

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

Earning A Living

There Is Only One Revolution Tolerable To All Men, All Societies, All Political Systems: Revolution By Design And Invention.

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.

Universe To Each Must Be All That Is, Including Me. Environment In Turn Must Be All That Is, Excepting Me.

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.

. . . So I Vowed To Keep Myself Alive, But Only If I Would Never Use Me Again For Just Me - Each One Of Us Is Born Of Two, And We Really Belong To Each Other. I Vowed To Do My Own Thinking, Instead Of Trying To Accommodate Everyone Else's Opinion, Credo's And Theories. I Vowed To Apply My Inventory Of Experiences To The Solving Of Problems That Affect Everyone Aboard Planet Earth.

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...doing More With Less.

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Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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You Either Make Sense Or You Make Money.

Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

Universe Is The Aggregate Of All Humanity's Consciously Apprehended And Communicated Nonsimultaneous And Only Partially Overlapping Experiences.

The Vector Equilibrium Is The True Zero Reference Of The Energetic Mathematics. Zero Pulsation In The Vector Equilibrium Is The Nearest Approach We Will Ever Know To Eternity And God: The Zero Phase Of Conceptual Integrity Inherent In The Positive And Negative Asymmetries That Propagate The Differentials Of Consciousness.

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

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.

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.

Whenever I Draw A Circle, I Immediately Want To Step Out Of It.

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.

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.

I Look For What Needs To Be Done

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.

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.

"the Further Art Advances The Closer It Approaches Science," Said Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer, And Inventor Of The Wheelbarrow, And Other Useful Instruments From The Speaking Tube To A Mechanically Gyp-proof Whore-house, "the Further Science Advances The Closer It Approaches Art."

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.

U.s. Labor Leaders Will Realize That Automation Can Multiply Man's Wealth Far More Rapidly Than It Is Multiplying At Present And That Automation Will Leave All Men Free To Search And Research... Realizing The Direct Competition With Foreign Industry On A Straight Labor Basis Will Mean Swiftly Decreasing Wages Per Hour And Longer Hours And Decreasing Buying Power Of The Public.

Integrity Is The Essence Of Everything Successful.

Everyone Is Born A Genius.

Gold And Silver From The Dead Turn Often Into Lead.

Gold And Silver

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.

Real Wealth Is Ideas Plus Energy.

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.

What Usually Happens In The Educational Process Is That The Faculties Are Dulled, Overloaded, Stuffed And Paralyzed So That By The Time Most People Are Mature They Have Lost Their Innate Capabilities.

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.

Don't Attempt To Reform Man. An Adequately Organized Environment Will Permit Humanity's Original, Innate Capabilities To Become Successful.

I Find Man Utterly Unaware Of What His Wealth Is Or His Fundamental Capability Is. He Says Time And Again, "we Can't Afford It." For Instance, We Are Saying Now That We Can't Afford To Do Anything About Pollution But After The Costs Of Not Doing Something About Pollution Have Multiplied Many Fold Beyond What It Would Cost To Correct It Now, We Will Spend Many Fold What It Would Cost Us Now To Correct It.

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

Our Brains Deal Exclusively With Special-case Experiences.

You Cannot Change How Someone Thinks, But You Can Give Them A Tool To Use Which Will Lead Them To Think Differently.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Well On Its Way To Being Solved.

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

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.

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

Since The Initial Publication Of The Chart Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Humans Have Learned That What They Can Touch, Smell, See, And Hear Is Less Than One-millionth Of Reality. Ninety- Nine Percent Of All That Is Going To Affect Our Tomorrows Is Being Developed By Humans Using Instruments And Working In Ranges Of Reality That Are Nonhumanly Sensible.

In Order To Change An Existing Paradigm You Do Not Struggle To Try And Change The Problematic Model. You Create A New Model And Make The Old One Obsolete.

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.

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

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

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

Everyone Has The Perfect Gift To Give The World-and If Each Of Us Is Freed Up To Give Our Unique Gift, The World Will Be In Total Harmony.

You Take The Senses Away, And There Is No Consciousness. Consciousness Comes From Experience.

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

If We Design The Environment Properly It Will Permit Both Child And Adult To Develop Safely And To Behave Logically.

On First Priority In Design Consideration Is The Full Realization Of Individual Potential In Order To Reach The Second Derivative Full Realization For All Individuals

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Love Is Metaphysical Gravity.

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Out Of My General World-pattern-trend Studies There Now Comes Strong Evidence That Nothing Is Going To Be Quite So Surprising And Abrupt In The Future History Of Man As The Forward Evolution In The Educational Process.

I Must Reorganize The Environment Of Man By Which Then Greater Numbers Of Men Can Prosper.

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

Inspirational Life

Mistakes Are Great, The More I Make The Smarter I Get.

Don't Change The Man. Change His Environment.

I Set About Fifty-five Years Ago (1927) To See What A Penniless, Unknown Human Individual With A Dependent Wife And Newborn Child Might Be Able To Do Effectively On Behalf Of All Humanity

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

Our Little Spaceship Earth Is Only Eight Thousand Miles In Diameter, Which Is Almost A Negligible Dimension In The Great Vastness Of Space.

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