[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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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