Power !

``The U.S. government has a technology called a printing press that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost." - Ben Bernanke, Chairman - US Federal Reserve.

No Choice but to Believe

"The first step before everybody else believes you is that you have to believe it. There is no reason to have plan B because it distracts from plan A." - Will Smith, Actor

"He who says he can, and he who says he can't - are both usually right." - Confucious.

The only way for you to move forward is to burn all bridges behind you.

Livestrong

In 1996, doctors gave Armstrong a 40% chance of survivng after testicular cancer spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain.

Nine years later, Armstrong won his 7th consecutive |tour De France - destroying a sucession of rivals.

"Pain is temporary - a minute, an hour, a day, a year, but it will subside. Qutting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong

"Never, ever think that it can't be done. If you do, someone will prove you wrong." - Dan Winey - Principal, Gensler Pacific

Elon Musk

"It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary" - Elon Musk, founder of Zip2, Paypal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and many other interesting things sought impossible early in their inceptions.

"Money doesn't lead, it follows"

"the more you give, the more you get, (as long as its not the next day)" - Dan Gilbert, majority owner of Cleveland Cavaliers

Effort-ness

"Anything acquired without effort and without cost is generally unappreciated, often discredited." - Napoleon Hill, author

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way." - Lance Armstrong, after defeating cancer and winning the Tour de France.

Architecture Booth

Built on nickels from John Morefield on Vimeo.

Architecture 5 Cents

Turn Waste to Oil - Cradle to Cradle

Thermal Depolymerization Process (TDP) turns any waste into light crude oil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWf9nYbm3ac

"If your needs are many, you may never be happy. If your needs are few and easily met, you may always be happy." - Brett Wilson

Love, by Steve Jobs

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You gotta find what you love. And that is true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationships, it just gets better and better as the years roll on." - Steve Jobs, 8:30 Stanford speech

Innovation, Personality and Contradiction

"When you only hear what you are ready to hear, this is not innovation. Innovation happens when you can hear something you don't quite know how to listen to..." - Eric Own Moss 8:17

Innovation is the result of strategically thinking of the alternative - Edward de Bono

Over population and peak oil - an inconvenient truth

RE: Posting in response to my earlier blog "Theory of Exponential Growth" on Jan. 22

"Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation,

Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation

As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less one individual maters. " - Isaac Asimov, (6:48 into video part 7 of 8)

"You must always ask why; if you only know how, you are just doing it like a machine. So always ask why you are doing it" - Mike Holmes, contractor

Smart Homes

Imagine all the systems in your home (hvac, electrical, hyrdo, lighting, security, electronics/appliances, motion/environmental sensors) are linked wirelessly to a central computer interface at home, with a dashboard and guage/meter giving direct quantitative feedbacks to the performance and consumption volume for each of these systems. An algorithm could be set up to run all these linked systems (by switching on the 'energy-saving mode like on your laptop) that respond to changing weather conditions, occupancy load, and fluctuation in utility pricing throughout the day to avoid costly peak hour consumptions. You could also override the system via your smart phone by inputing your own custom preferences with regards to your lifestyle behaviour, routine activities, and personal comfort.

Ref:http://www.thezeroprize.net/images/lets_do_for_buildings_what_we_have_done_for_cars_cndn.pdf

Mass customization

Laminated timber framed roof covered in transulent fiberglass + teflon textile designed by Shigeru Ban for Center Pompidou in Metz France. Each of 1800 individual timer beam is unique in size and cut robotically by a 5 axis CNC mill. Parametric modeling (done by swiss firm designtoproduction) makes mass customization possible. Total cost of custom roof is 8 million euro, representing approx. 13% of total construction cost (65 million).

Daymond John in 5

1. "Luck is when desire and fate meets opportunities"...the harder you work, the luckier you get.

2. "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing"

3. "Sacrifice is giving up something of lesser value for something of greater value."

4. "If you work for money, one day will seem like forever. But if you work for love, forever will seem like one day."

5. "The world is full of talented people who are technically proficient but lack the drive or the instincts or the contacts to make a meaningful impact."

- Daymond John, Co-founder/CEO/Brand-master of FUBU.
source: "Display of Power" 2007

Wireless Interface - Smart Homes of the future

Failure

"Losing is a part of winning, anybody who try only to win and never to lose could never ever win" - Robert Kiyosaki

"Failure is an option, fear is not." - James Cameron, TED speech

"Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me...It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default." - J.K.. Rowling, Harvard Speech

Simply said, failure is a learning process of becoming successful if you choose to learn from those failures. Picasso and Jobs are always risking failures... There's no doubt that you will fail several times in your life, but its how you respond to failure that's more important.

How do you know what success is if you haven't fail?

NY Times Invention of the Year 2010

It is only when people witness the consequences of their actions in person that they start taking their actions seriously.

NY Times Best invention of the year 2009: Energy Hub

An device connected to your electric meter at home showing every bit of your electricity usage and the amount of $$ you're spending for every light/appliance/etc you choose to turn on. Information in this case is used to generate behavioral awareness about consumption habits of homeowners.

Odds versus Performance

"People dont fail,they simply quite before they learned the necessary skills to do them" - Tim Sales


Which matters the most - odds or performance? Odds dont matter when performance is invovled. Your odds of success will certainly be greater if you've learned and practiced the necessary skills to perform successfully.

Great Quote on Paradigm Shift

"All truth passes through three stages:

First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Socrates, Plato, Palladio, Da Vinci, Copernicus, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Jørn Utzon, I.M. Pei, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, and....

Theory of Exponential Growth

Us humans don't realize the practicality of certain issues until its too late as things often accelerate exponentially in severity and effects just slightly before its tipping point, whether its about Climate Crisis, Peak Oil, Gold Price, Financial Crisis, Personal Health, Species Extinctions, Fresh Water Shortage, etc; we've always failed to comprehend the power of Exponential Growth that defines the order of our Universe. This clip explains really well, serving as an reminder for us to simply 'Start before its too late' - ignorance is a sin.

Make Sense !

"The best financial assets for a person to own would be those over which he has peculiar knowledge of expertise." - Randal J. Kirk, a Pharmaceutical tycoon

But always learn to know what you need to learn, even though you don't want to learn it.

Truth of Capitalism: How a Billionaire pays less income tax % than you

Full article:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/01/01/88600/index.htm

Unrealized capital gains:
http://www.ctj.org/hid_ent/part-2/part2-2.htm

'5% of world's population controls over 95% of world's wealth'