A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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