Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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