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 FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You can’t learn less.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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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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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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.
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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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