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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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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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 look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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