A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can never learn less, you can only learn more.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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