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1. "If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?" ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

2. "I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

3. "I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

4. "God is a verb" ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

5. "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." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

6. "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." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

7. "If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

8. "Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

9. "Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

10. "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

11. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

12. "We should 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." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

13. "Geniuses are just people who had good mothers." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

14. "I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

15. "Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

16. "When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

17. "Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

18. "I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

19. "Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked" ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

20. "...primarily the individual is going to study at home." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

21. "When I solve a problem, I do not think about beauty. But when I have solved it, if it is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

22. "We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

23. "Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

24. "There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

25. "A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

26. "The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

27. "I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

28. "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." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

29. "All the present bureaucracies of political governments, great religious organizations, and all big businesses find that physical success for all humanity would be devastating to the perpetuation of their ongoing activities. This is because all of them are founded on the premise of ameliorating individual cases while generally exploiting on behalf of their respective political, religious, or business organizations the condition of no-where-nearly-enough-life-support-for-all and its resultant great human suffering and discontent." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

30. "Today's news consists of aggregates of fragments. Anyone who has taken part in any event that has subsequently appeared in the news is aware of the gross disparity between the actual and the reported events. We also learn frequently of prefabricated and prevaricated evens of a complex nature purportedly undertaken for the purposes wither of suppressing or rigging the news, which in turn perverts humanity's tactical information resources. All history becomes suspect. Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes." ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

31. "Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent" ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Contrary to the current presumption, if there is any man who has no right to solitude, it is the artist. Art cannot be a monologue. When the most solitary and least famous artist appeals to posterity, he is merely reaffirming his fundamental vocation. Considering a dialogue with deaf or inattentive contemporaries to be impossible, he appeals to a more far-reaching dialogue with the generations to come. But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death—these are the things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual to individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all."
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