I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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You can’t learn less.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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