Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Television is the third parent.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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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 most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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We 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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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You can’t learn less.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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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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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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