You either make sense or you make money.

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Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I think it’s absolutely touch-and-go whether we’re going to make it. But the point is, for me to tell you that you have an option is not to be optimistic… Time and again, of course I am running into millions who don’t know we have the option, because it’s invisible, and I feel I have tremendous responsibility. So when people ask me to come and talk to them, I do my best to let them know they do have the option. Of course they’re pessimistic, not knowing that. - View Quote Details on I think it’s absolutely touch-and-go whether we’re going to make…
When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima as the worst single killing of humans by humans. That was about a 75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each year, year after year, a 75,000-capacity-stadiumfull of around-the-world humans perish from starvation or its side effects, despite an annual average 5-percent world food-production overage of the amount of food adequate for the total world’s population. This daily kill of innocents dwarfs the awful Auschwitz killing. - View Quote Details on When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full…
on first priority / in design consideration / is the full realization / of individual potential / in order to reach the second derivative– / full realization for all individuals - View Quote Details on on first priority / in design consideration / is the…
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - View Quote Details on You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To…
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? - View Quote Details on It is not for me to change you. The question…
Don’t fight forces, use them. - View Quote Details on Don’t fight forces, use them.
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation. - View Quote Details on Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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. - View Quote Details on There is room enough indoors in New York City for…
I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. - View Quote Details on I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival…
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe. - View Quote Details on The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively…