This art was made possible by prior art. This art is significant only if it serves as a starting point, as an inspiration, for other Artists. Encourage art by honoring the Artist. If you are an Artist, give due credit for the prior art that made your art possible or that inspired you.

IdeaFarm (tm) City exists because Dominican, Benedictine, and Franciscan sisters and priests were busy educating children at Sacred Heart School in Coronado, California, in the 1960s. I, the organizer, was one of those children.

I clearly remember, as if it was just yesterday, viewing the bright, clean public school classroom where I was about to take a summer school class in mechanical drawing. I was there for summer school, and it was probably the summer of 1967, between my grade 7 and grade 8 school years. Or, now that I think about it, it was the class in Geography; I remember drawing a political map of South America and having to memorize all of the countries on it.

As I viewed that classroom one day, struck by its marked contrast with the relatively shabby classrooms of my regular Catholic school, I was struck again to see a second contrast. Life was "warm and fuzzy" in my regular, Catholic, school. In the public school, life was not "warm and fuzzy"; it was cold, sterile, and lonely.

Years after writing the Constitutional Declaration of IdeaFarm (tm) City, I realized that it, as well as all of my other cognitive art, can be traced to, and attributed to, that observation on two subcultures that I made as I gazed at that public school classroom at the end of my 7th grade year in Catholic school.

Only the most ignorant cognitive artist is unaware that he "stands on the shoulders of giants". I stand on the shoulders of an army of giants, all arranged vertically. It is a long, long way down. I dare not fail to give them due credit. Should I slight any one of them, he might sneeze and cause all of us to fall to our deaths!

More extensive credits are given within the IdeaFarm (tm) Console. Here, I shall only state that I was educated by teachers who taught me to love truth and to work hard to possess it and to promote it. These teachers worked at:

• Sacred Heart School, Coronado, California
• Coronado High School, Coronado, California
• San Diego State University, San Diego, California
• UCLA, Los Angeles, California
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Much of the prior art that made my cognitive art possible is not mentioned here. I have chosen to give credit here to the art of my teachers, for it was they who crafted my mind, as a potter crafts the pot. Without a mind prepared to receive inspiration and a heart moved to then act upon it, the other prior art would have been without effect.

One credit must be mentioned here. SOIL (tm), (IdeaFarm (tm) Sentient Object Interface Language), was initially conceived by the coupling of C++ with Forth. The development of SOIL (tm) was guided by the objective of combining the power, efficiency, and language philosophy of C++ with the internal simplicity and expressive elegance of Forth. The result is a strongly typed language that topologically is just a sequence of words uttered and comprehended by sentient objects in a recursive set of spaces. The artists who created and developed C++ and Forth made possible the creation of SOIL (tm).