The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From Buckminster Fuller We must 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 & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.” Buckminster Fuller Our power is in our ability to decide. Buckminster Fuller Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. Buckminster Fuller You can't learn less. Buckminster Fuller If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. Buckminster Fuller Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how? Buckminster Fuller Better a crook you know than one you don't. Buckminster Fuller I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. Buckminster Fuller
