My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERVastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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Truth is a tendency.
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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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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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