There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMy ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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If 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.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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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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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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