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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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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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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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles
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...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. 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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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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