The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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.
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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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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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You can’t learn less.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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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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