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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHistory’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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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