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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

R. Buckminster Fuller

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
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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Challenges Space Technology
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
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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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
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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Computer Men Technology
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men