All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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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.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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