When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll sports are time control demonstrations.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Only 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.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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