“We want you to do it. If you need more money just tell me. I’ll pay you what you want. But you’ve got to do it.”

So I thought, oh my gosh, you know, this here is the fulcrum. I mean I’m actually at the point now where this opportunity is being handed to me on a plate, and have I got the courage to deal with it or not?

Excerpted from a great anecdote about the early days of his thinking on living design where the opportunity to put some of his ideas into practice was more or less forced into his lap.