Buzz Aldrin Quotes

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

All human endeavor, all human civilization, is the act of solving collective action problems. Should we put out our own fires, or should we have a fire department? Should we build roads, or should we hack our way through the woods from one factory to another?

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

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

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Right now, we're trying to make sure that what we produce is as good for the environment as possible or, at least, helps clean up another problem.

Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

I think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you have to fully understand the thing you're trying to change. We really need to get serious about this now; there needs to be real, effective programs. I think there needs to be a little bit more strategy involved and a little more realism, to be pragmatic and realistic, looking at the way we as women contribute to the problem. Once the second half of the population stops doing it, it's going to end.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

Another world is possible!' ... Another world is also necessary, for this one is unjust, unsustainable, and unsafe. It's up to us to envision, fight for, and create that world, a world of freedom, real justice, balance, and shared abundance, a world woven in a new design.

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.