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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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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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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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