Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERQuite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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I look for what needs to be done
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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