R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

(Richard Buckminster Fuller)


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R. Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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The major reason for not yet harvesting waste is the labor, caital, and energy costs of recycling relative to the value of the resource is too high. Technology improvements and greater shortages continuously change the equation in favor of harvesting more and more resources.

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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Born: July 12, 1895
  • Died: July 1, 1983
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Designer, Author, Inventor
Biography

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".

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