Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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