There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAs long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSearch others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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