it carries with it ideas of metaphorical ascension, ideas of nirvana, enlightenment. in austria, in front of the parliament building. embodied here is a notion of athena, a vessel of value. more contemporary work from 2004. a figure at pennsylvania station in baltimore. we are all familiar with the flamingo's at central plaza. you may be familiar with a version of this that was on the embarcadero a few years ago. returning ourselves to home, three hats, six arms. that was in front of city hall for some time. here, we can return to ideas embodied in tim hawkinson's piece for the transit center. the civic tradition of figures in front of buildings call up elemental forces of ourselves, and that is the strength of his work. there is a humanization of that. there is an ability to take abstract, disparate materials to convey human emotion. that is how these connection can be made. for us, a place where people -- in much the with same way that you saw earlier -- it will allow people to connect on the corner, in the city, as well as with the transbay project. we hope that yo

>> the idea of super rich is based in the idea of being in a state of christ consciousness or nirvana. the buddhists refer to -- yogis refer to samadi. a space consciousness of needing nothing. i wrote the book because there are so many people entitled and don't feel empowered. there are some people empowered but still act entitled. the idea is to get people to take advantage of their power and to operate from inside as opposed to letting what is going on in the outside move them around. and when you say a state of needing nothing, a prosperity preacher might refer to that as operating from abundance. so there is a prosperity component to it. but the book is about happiness. >> so it's really not necessarily about stuff and being super rich, meaning having a lot of stuff. >> right. >> it's really contentment. >> the stuff is a by-product. it's about being a servant. you wake up in the morning and decide what you want to give. and if you're a great servant and intern, many stories of leo cohen, julie greenwald, all these interns i had that become presidents. the same story. they were s

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so many other school people know how to sell this stuff and make you think you're going to go to nirvanaand when they are left alone with it, they can't make it work. i can't figure out all this stuff. i probably will end of taking my smart phone apart. [laughter] it is the technology gets just out of reach of the consumer. it's like trying to get a soap bubble. you reach for it and the wind gets it just beyond you. it's like the capacity in computers. it's great we double the capacity in the programmers said i'm going to eat this up and it's still a constant push. and so, it's just a request. you can comment on it, probably you don't have time. but you've got to get to this on behalf of the consumer is on behalf of the consumer and concert with the consumer, talk to the consumer instead of a big full-page ad telling us by yet and figuring it out later. [laughter] >> i think we need to clear the room for the next panel. we are we over time. maybe you can have this conversation off the cuff. >> we are going to take a five minute break and be back at 10:30 because the keynote speaker is he

laboratory can dream up, and so many other people sell the stuff and make you think you are going to go to nirvana. when they are left alone, they can't make it work. i'm serious, i can't figure out. i love this stuff. i'll probably end up taking my smartphone apart just to see what's in there. but making it do -- i'm going to make this personal, it is that the technology gets just out of the reach of the consumer. trying to get a soap bubble, you reach for it and the wind makes it get just beyond you. it's like the capacity in computers. great that we doubled the capacity. the programmers said i'm going to eat it up. still it's a constant push. and so it's just a request. you can comment on it, but you probably don't have time. and that is you've got to get to this thing about on behalf of the consumers on behalf of the consumers in concert with the consumers, talking to consumers, instead of a big full page ad saying heaven is here, a cloud is here, buy it and figure it out later. >> i think we need to clear the room for the next panel. maybe you can have the conversation off the coppic. >> we'r