Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor
Lived from: 1895 - 1983
Category: Scientists Country: 
United States
Born: 12 july 1895 Died: 1 july 1983
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
Cosmography (1992)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Wealth is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the forward days of our lives.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe
Critical Path (1981)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
You can't learn less.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by the computer.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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