Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Truth is a tendency.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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