American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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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 purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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 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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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