R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.