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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
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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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
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It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
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His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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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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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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