Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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