Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERInstead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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