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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

R. Buckminster Fuller

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty Creativity Thinking
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Acting Peace Venture
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Radiation Together
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Needs Tasks Thinking
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Knows Littles Realizing
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Integrity Success
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Mean Support
Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Overlapping Universe
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 FULLER

Computer Men Technology
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Democracy Order World
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Blind Management Sometimes
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Passenger Spaceships
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Able Humanity Joy