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"I’ve got to know what I can do on behalf of my fellow man as a designer without trespassing on my fellow man. These seem to be very fundamental kind of questions.
"For instance, I said, I see-- you didn’t see it-- but there was a stone that’s falling there and it’s going to hit you in the head and I jump up that way and deflect it. And if I didn’t you’d be killed. And you might say to me: I wish you hadn’t done that, I want to die. And then I say: You didn’t know that the stone was falling. That option has to be yours. If I saw that the falling stone was going to kill you and I don’t act-- quickly like that-- then I would consider that I am a murderer because I have allowed you to be killed when you needn’t be killed. Okay. So I said, I don’t think I’m trespassing then when I intercept on behalf of my fellow man and divert. So we can’t really insulate anything. You can’t stop Universe. It’s inexorable. But what we can do is take all the events impinging upon man and we can divert them in preferred ways.
“We all need water, but you can’t drink all the rain when it rains. But what we can do is to shunt it angularly into a”
