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You either make sense or you make money.

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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Milton
Massachusetts
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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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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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
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Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Whether 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?
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