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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

R. Buckminster Fuller

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Space Technology
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Competence Enormous
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
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Child Children Newborn Years
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Continous Programming Tensegrity
All sports are time control demonstrations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Demonstration Sports
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Antithesis Mind Reflexes
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Guitar Leadership Strength
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

High Men Politics Standard
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Horse Two Years
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
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
If you change the environment, you change the people.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environment People
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Numbers Obvious