Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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It 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.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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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.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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