Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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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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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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History’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.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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