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“When you can’t go any further with one thing, then you look over to another one that needs attending to, and you keep shifting from one to the other. So, at any rate, I’ve learned how to survive there. One of the things I do is never try to persuade anybody. I don’t try to sell anything. You see what needs to be done and you do it. And you wait until a man says ‘What is that?’ and then you tell him what it is. For instance, I’ve learned that there’s no use going around with pulmotors dor-to-door like a Fuller Brush man and say ‘I’d like to sell pulmotors.’ But all of a sudden there’s some suffocation and you have to have a pulmotor in a hurry, and then it’s lucky you did it. So I find that society has its emergencies. . . So you have what I call emergence by emergency. And that’s what is really going on at this table with the individuals really beginning to find out how you do do it. That’s the thing, not talking about it theoretically, but just really looking at what can be done-- and more than just getting the figures. This then leads to design: What are the things that need designing?”
