"We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

William J. Mitchell

#Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.”
“I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.”
“The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag
“If you want to be like me, work hard and believe in it, and if you don't believe in it, get rid of it.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“True genius is creative and makes all from nothing.”
“There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.”
“A radical is he who has no sense...fights without reason...I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.”
“The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.”

Source : "Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 29, 1972.

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