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You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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Engineer
Futurist
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Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.
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I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
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It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
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If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.
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You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, What is it you want? What kind of world do you want? So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.
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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they want to live out in the country, with their own projects. We’ll put up the buildings for them, design the buildings for them, design the food production systems for them – if they want us to. But we don’t control them.
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Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
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LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.
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There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
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We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
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Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
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The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.
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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
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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.
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There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
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The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
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Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
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