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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
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