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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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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