The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERArchitects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Never show unfinished work.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The 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.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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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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… 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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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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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