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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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