I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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You can’t learn less.
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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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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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