Don’t fight forces, use them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMost of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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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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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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