Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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