Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco, is an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Fresco is self-taught and has worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 March 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
soldier machines killing
Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
political problem
Our problems are technical, not political
want world kind
We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.
today would-be offensive
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
venus today helping
The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.
running vegetables availability
Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. That would be up to people.
cities drawing goal
You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.
hard-work simple work-out
We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
environmental faces breaking-down
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
creativity unique together
Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
wise smart wiser
Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.
love-is fixed happenings
Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.
support half want
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.
hero men earth
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.