When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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?
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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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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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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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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