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."
En der hørte det seks timer lange foredrag jeg holdt på NPR kaldet "Monticello Dialogerne" sendte mig dette som tak - "Vi erkender, at design er en angivelse af intentioner, men det er også nødt til at finde sted i en verden, og vi bliver nødt til at forstå denne verden, for at kunne indgive vore designs en indbygget intelligens, og når vi ser tilbage på tingenes grundlæggende tilstand som vi designer indenfor, bliver vi nødt til at tilgå den oprindelige tilstand for at forstå det fungerende system og planetens rammebetingelser og jeg synes den spændende del af dette er de gode nyheder for disse nyheder er nyheder om overflod, ikke nyheder om begrænsninger, og jeg tror, at mens vores kultur nu torturerer sig selv med tyrannier og bekymringer om begrænsninger og frygt, kan vi tilføje denne anden dimension af overflødighed, som giver mening, drevet af solen, og begynde at forestille os hvordan det ville være at dele."