Someone heard the six hours of talk that I gave called "The Monticello Dialogues" on NPR, and sent me this as a thank you note -- "We realize that design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world, and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence, and so as we look back at the basic state of affairs in which we design, we, in a way, need to go to the primordial condition to understand the operating system and the frame conditions of a planet, and I think the exciting part of that is the good news that's there, because the news is the news of abundance, and not the news of limits, and I think as our culture tortures itself now with tyrannies and concerns over limits and fear, we can add this other dimension of abundance that is coherent, driven by the sun, and start to imagine what that would be like to share."
Netko je čuo govor od šest sati što sam održao nazvan "Monticello dijalozi" na NPR-u i poslao mi je ovo kao zahvalnicu -- "Mi shvaćamo da je dizajn znak namjere, ali on se također mora desiti u svijetu, i moramo razumijeti taj svijet kako bi mogli prožeti naše dizajne sa prirođenom inteligencijom, i tako kad se osvrnemo na osnovno stanje stvari u kojem mi dizajniramo, moramo otići u praiskonsko stanje kako bi razumjeli operativni sustav i okvirne uvjete planete, i mislim da je uzbudljivi dio toga dobre vijesti koje su tamo, jer te vijesti su vijesti o obilju, a ne vijesti o ograničenjima, i dok naša kultura muči sada sebe samu, sa tiranijama i zabrinutostima oko ograničenja i straha, mi možemo dodati drugu dimenziju obilja koja je dosljedna, vođena suncem, i početi zamišljati kako bi to bilo dijeliti."