If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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