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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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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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