The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor 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.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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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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You can’t learn less.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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