To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work. R. Buckminster Fuller economypoliticswisdom 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. R. Buckminster Fuller ambitiouspowerfulhistorical A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. R. Buckminster Fuller patternsindependentintegrity Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process. R. Buckminster Fuller strongeducationmen 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. R. Buckminster Fuller computertechnologymen Man is designed to be a comprehensivist . R. Buckminster Fuller men The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. R. Buckminster Fuller inexplicablemysticalobvious All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. R. Buckminster Fuller childrenyearsfirsts History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. R. Buckminster Fuller skycloudspeople Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how? R. Buckminster Fuller humanityearthdoe We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home. R. Buckminster Fuller homejobspeople Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. R. Buckminster Fuller opinionlawsometimes Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention? R. Buckminster Fuller politicalintegritypeople Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth. R. Buckminster Fuller maygivingmen The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion. R. Buckminster Fuller oblivionutopiachoices There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. R. Buckminster Fuller geniuschildren How do we make the world work? R. Buckminster Fuller world Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. R. Buckminster Fuller naturereadingbook A fool with a tool still remains a fool. R. Buckminster Fuller foolstillstools We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control. R. Buckminster Fuller selfchildrenpeople
