Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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