Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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