english: 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."
non_english: Neko je slušao moj šestočasovni govor pod nazivom ”Montičelovi dijalozi" na radiju i poslao mi sledeću zahvalnicu: ”Shvatamo da je dizajn znak namere, ali on mora i da se dogodi u svetu, a mi moramo da razumemo taj svet da bismo naš dizajn mogli prožeti suštinskom inteligencijom, i dok gledamo unazad na osnovnu situaciju u kojoj dizajniramo, mi na neki način treba da se vratimo u praiskonske uslove razumevanja operativnog sistema, i osnovnih uslova na planeti i ja smatram da je uzbudljiv deo toga dobra vest o tome šta je tamo, jer je to u stvari vest o izobilju, a ne vest o ograničenjima, i smatram da se naša kultura sada muči tiranijama i brigama o ograničenjima i strahu, mi možemo dodati i ovu dimenziju izobilja koja je prožima, vođena suncem, i početi da zamišljamo kako bi bilo kada bismo to podelili."