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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERLove is a metaphysical gravity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpecialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCorollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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