Carlo Ratti Quotes

#1. One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

Carlo Ratti

#2. The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

Carlo Ratti

#3. The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Rajneesh

#4. Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

Carlo Ratti

#5. I like to stay at home and sit on my ass.

Chelsea Handler

#6. Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

Carlo Ratti

#7. Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

Carlo Ratti

#8. I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Hedy Lamarr

#9. When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Carlo Ratti

#10. Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

Carlo Ratti

#11. Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe - ever expanding.

Ilona Andrews

#12. As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

Carlo Ratti

#13. Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Carlo Ratti

#14. You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Adrian Rogers

#15. Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Henry Louis Gates

#16. Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

Carlo Ratti

#17. Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

Arthur Eddington

#18. We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

Carlo Ratti

#19. The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

Carlo Ratti