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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERControlled time is our true wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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