Jacque Fresco Quotes

This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

No one ever has the resources they need.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

The patent system was established to encourage inventors to disclose the details of their inventions. Its purpose was to help society rather than to help inventors. At the time, the life span of 17 years for a patent was short compared with the rate of advance of the state of the art. Since patents are an issue only among manufacturers, for whom the cost and effort of a license agreement are small compared with setting up production, the patents often do not do much harm. They do not obstruct most individuals who use patented products.

I write this letter because I wish you to believe of us (as we certainly believe of you) that we are doing the very best we can. You do not receive arms from us as fast as you need them; but it is because we have not near enough to meet all the pressing demands; and we are obliged to share around what we have, sending the larger share to the points which appear to need them most. As to Kentucky, you do not estimate that state as more important than I do; but I am compelled to watch all points

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much innovation. And the big challenge is, how do you think about resource allocation and priorities when you have so many great options? But wearing jeans instead of suits and popping into driverless cars has also been a lot of fun.

There are times when we have to add resources to Apple, grow talent to do something that we weren't able to do before.

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under.

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

There is no country like the United States, with its diversified industrial base, technology leadership, innovation and strong pressure to build companies to make them grow.