I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.