You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have. Jacque Fresco More Quotes by Jacque Fresco More Quotes From Jacque Fresco Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways Jacque Fresco creativityuniquetogether I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better. Jacque Fresco crazynamesthinking If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down. Jacque Fresco breaking-downenvironmentalfaces The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity. Jacque Fresco designlossopportunity You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple. The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things. Jacque Fresco kitessimplepeople Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project. Jacque Fresco gamesplaylong The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about. Jacque Fresco venushelpingtoday Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth. Jacque Fresco earthheromen You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity. Jacque Fresco guypeopleyears The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete. Jacque Fresco insanelongpeople When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species Jacque Fresco technologyevolutiondevelopment This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources. Jacque Fresco supporthalfwant You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem. Jacque Fresco agricultureself-confidencetalking The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. Jacque Fresco venushumanityculture The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone. Jacque Fresco vacuumstechnologytools The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction. Jacque Fresco technologyintelligenttools If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film. Jacque Fresco horrorfilmculture All the world's people should share all the world's resources. Jacque Fresco sharepeopleworld There is no way you can think outside of your culture. Jacque Fresco culturethinking You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time. Jacque Fresco know-howdesigncities
