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– The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin

Media technologies in fact are not at odds with our inner selves but are in fact a reflection of it, it comes from that. These technologies extended our senses out into the world, they cross space and time, they function as out of the body experiences, they represent a set of phenomena that until relatively recently was classified as psychic manifestations or shamanistic acts.

Look for our tombs not in the / ground but in the hearts of men

Whatever enters your heart is a guest /  from the invisible world: entertain it well

—Jalaluddin Rumi

What can it do without? Boil, reduce, simmer. Get to the essence of the materials you are working with.

—Found in my notebook

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

—Cedric Price

Every child deserves a fair chance and equal rights. Does everyone have access to healthcare, water, education? We need to develop communities with mutual aid and support dignity and respect.

—I found this in a text file and not sure where it came from

The course and consequences of the present world economic crisis are unpredictable. In a few months, the vast balloon of expectations built on false assumptions about the world’s resources was pricked. On balance, despite the difficulties and hardship that must result, we can be thankful that the crisis has exploded prematurely, for political reasons, while the world still commands enough time and resources to effect the far-reaching changes that are required to bring our demands on nature into harmony with nature’s ability to satisfy them. One consequence must be that the practice of architecture will have to undergo a transformation, requiring a return to first principles and the release of the latent skills and energies that are now being misused or frustrated.

—(Malcolm MacEwan, Crisis in Architecture, 1974)“ (from "Dark matter and trojan horses. A strategic design vocabulary.” by Dan Hill)