Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Truth is a tendency.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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