“You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.” KnowsCitiesKnow HowDesign Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleLongStillsPlayEarthGamesSocialFeltDesignProductsShapesProjectsConscienceResourcesPlantI RealizedConclusionQuestsLong LifeManufacturingGreat DepressionVenusRules Of The Game Author:Jacque Fresco
“We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.” HumansFightingJusticeRightsSocietyDesignBuildingIntegrityEqualInjusticeHuman RightsEqualityUnjustStoppingEqual RightsSystemic ChangeEqual Justice Author:Jacque Fresco
“In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons” PeopleIfsWantDoeGovernmentMovingHurtDesignProductsProgramMachinesPrisonProductionsLifestyleProgrammingOur SocietyAgricultureFarming Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” PeopleIfsWantCountryCitiesGroupsDesignBuildingProjectsProductionsLifestyleWant UAmishFood Production Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” OpportunityIndividualSocialLossDesignProjectsIndividualityEndeavorSubmissionVenusUniformity Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” WayDesignUtopianOptimal Author:Jacque Fresco
“The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work. Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe… They have no knowledge in that area. Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.” KnowsWorldMeanRealFactsCultureTechnologyKnow HowFailingDesignPoliticianSafeCapableAreasProductionsSignificanceTransportationReal KnowledgeFood Production Author:Jacque Fresco
“You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.” PeopleIfsProblemConditionsDesignEthicsAvailableStealingDecencyScarcity Author:Jacque Fresco
“You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.” PeopleKindLanguageConditionsEventsDesignCreatorAccidentsBe GoodBe KindHighwaysExceedProceduresInnovatorsSlipperyConsiderateBe Considerate Author:Jacque Fresco
“In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.” LongLastsResponsibilityBreakDesignProductsBreaking DownOverloaded Author:Jacque Fresco
“There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.” PerfectCitiesSubjectsDesignFinalsFrontiersUtopian Author:Jacque Fresco
