You may very appropriately want to ask me how we…

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.

Sourced, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate “comprehensivity.” Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. - View Quote Details on Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist…
Don’t fight forces, use them. - View Quote Details on Don’t fight forces, use them.
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. - View Quote Details on We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends…
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject. - View Quote Details on The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is…
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings — and all the people sleeping in the slums. - View Quote Details on There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping…
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. - View Quote Details on The question of integrity will get finer and finer and…
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. - View Quote Details on We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with…
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet’s surface at that time. Everything else will follow. - View Quote Details on The most important thing to teach your children is that…
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral. - View Quote Details on Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated…
If the 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? - View Quote Details on If the success or failure of this planet, and of…