All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Television is the third parent.
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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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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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