Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERReal wealth is ideas plus energy.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Television is the third parent.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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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[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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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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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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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.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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