Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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Truth is a tendency.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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