I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERParents 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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