Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERBy 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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