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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity People Political
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Mean Support
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Successful Technology Years
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Copies Principles Trying
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Degrees Diminishing Question
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Age Attention Support You
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mistake More Smarter
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Support War Wisdom
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Additional Problem Solved Unknown
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Balance Lines Physics
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Animal Dimension Nature Space
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Peace Ubuntu
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Effectiveness Greater Striving
[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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inadvertently Integrity May Special
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Firsts Years