I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Observation 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.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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