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.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

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.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

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.

Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.