Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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[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.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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