When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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