All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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