I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMy ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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