One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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