You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTechnologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Television is the third parent.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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