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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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 take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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... reform the environment and not man being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
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His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.
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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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