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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
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“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.”
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“Real wealth is ideas plus energy.”
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“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.”
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“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
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“You can never learn less; you can only learn more.”
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“There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.”
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
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“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
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“Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.”
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“It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.”
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“A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.”
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“Our power is in our ability to decide.”
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“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.”
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“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
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“It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?”
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“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
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“Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.”
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“Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.”
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“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.”
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“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. War is obsolete. It is a mater of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.”
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“The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve”
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“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”
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“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.”
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