You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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