A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERSometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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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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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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Truth is a tendency.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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