Either war is obsolete, or men are.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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