Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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There 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.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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 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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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Never show unfinished work.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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