I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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