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
wise smart wiser
Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.
creativity unique together
Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
love-is fixed happenings
Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.
environmental faces breaking-down
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
crazy thinking names
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.
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
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.
hurt long people
We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people to steal - so they'll have access to medical care, health care, decent housing, all people, all over the world. As long as you don't share your resources, you are going to have trouble
war reading sacrifice
Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.
inspirational wish world
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
thinking cities way
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
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.
hurt moving government
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons
today would-be offensive
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.