“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayWellsCoursesNamesCrazyUpsetHospitals Author:Jacque Fresco
“People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.” PeopleKnowsFirstsProblemAsksAnswersUniversalMeaningfulFind Me Author:Jacque Fresco
“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
“I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEarthCan DoPerfectHarmonyNotionHumanistWarmthUtopianPerfect Society Author:Jacque Fresco
“The government means industry, if you know what I mean.” IfsKnowsMeanGovernmentIndustry Author:Jacque Fresco
“You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.” PeopleKnowsWorldDoeCausesMorningProduceTomorrowRealizationChanging The WorldReasonableFrustrationTake TimeUnreasonableTomorrow Morning Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.” IfsKnowsWorldWantMeanChildrenI CanUseRunningAbleCultureNormalDrawsOrdinaryOur ChildrenTrainRelateFasterYour ChildrenBetter Than YouMessed UpCorrelation Author:Jacque Fresco
“When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. I told you some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eyesight than others. I don't know what that means. I think they're trying to talk about equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. If you don't have the money to go to college, the word 'equal opportunities' mean nothing” IfsThinkingKnowsMenTryingMeanOpportunityCollegeEqualHeavyBotherEqual OpportunityEyesight Author:Jacque Fresco
“I don't believe in Gods and devils. I think it's man-made stories to try and help people understand where all this came from. They said 'Where did the world come from if there's no God', 'Where did life come from'. Just say 'I don't know'. Don't say some guy made a man and a woman. You have no business doing that, you know what I mean? And then He got mad and flooded the whole world; told Noah to build an arc. These are terrible stories.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWorldTryingBelieveMeanMadeSaidWholeHelpingStoriesGuyBusinessTerribleDevilMadDon't BelieveWhole WorldBelieve In GodThey SaidArcs Author:Jacque Fresco
“It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldLifeShouldRealRealityHappensHurtExpectationsDisappointmentDisappointedProjectionUnrealWhatever HappensHurtfulFuturistUnrealistic ExpectationsExceeding Expectations Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsKnowsWorldKindPersonsSelfProblemAbilityTalkingAreasSolveSelf ConfidenceChemicalsNew WorldAgricultureCompetenceNot TalkingElectricalParticipatingAircraftRedesign Author:Jacque Fresco
“We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?” PeopleKnowsEarthTogetherKnow HowHellKnowingConflictMarsDisagreement Author:Jacque Fresco
“Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.” KnowsWantNeedsMeanPersonsValuesWaterBornAirBirthReflectionSignificantPhysiologicalValue SystemsPersonal ValuesSignificant Things Author:Jacque Fresco
“The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.” IfsKnowsSaidWarEndsSpiritualHumanityPovertyProjectsBrotherhoodTranslationsVenus Author:Jacque Fresco
“The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.” KnowsDoeDreamGoalProjectsIntelligentLimitationApplicationUtopianIdealistVenusOrwellian Author:Jacque Fresco
“What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and the end of begging for medical care. Everyone will be cared for and educated. There will be no taxation, and no advantage group. No technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism. If that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindWarEndsEnoughCarePovertyGroupsCrimeAdvantageRewardsMedicalEducatedTaxationIncentivesBeggingElitismMedical Care 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 approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMeanReasonValuesLosesApproachLogicAppealsReason And Logic Author:Jacque Fresco
“You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work… So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.” KnowsWorldChildrenAsksDifficultOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDifficult ThingsOrientationDiscrepancies Author:Jacque Fresco
“All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.” KnowsWorldYearsValuesTelevisionHigherPoliticianAll ThingsDefinitionsThings ChangeAutomobileLightersOld Values Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” IfsKnowsEndsEarthTechnologyResourcesManageParadiseFuturistParadise On Earth Author:Jacque Fresco
“We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.” KnowsAnswersEconomicSecurityEconomic Security Author:Jacque Fresco
“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” IfsKnowsHumansSocialHuman BeingsTechnologyFailingPossibilityDevelopmentEvolutionSpeciesWitnessDecline Author:Jacque Fresco
“Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.” KnowsWorldYearsProblemTodayAbilityStudentsPoliticianBehaviorHundredYears AgoSolveFactorsAgriculture Author:Jacque Fresco
