I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERObservation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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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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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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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Television is the third parent.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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