When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
-
-
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER