“On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.”

Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell’s proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America.

James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America’s energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking.

In the final analysis, photography… is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.