When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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 highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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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