It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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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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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.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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 set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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