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R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983] American

Rank: 11
Inventor, Architect

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic.

Politics, Nature, Space, Technology, Alone, Architecture, Art, Beauty, Brainy, Experience, Faith, Future, God, Great, Home, Intelligence, Knowledge, Leadership, Love, Travel, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.	Beauty	101
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.	Alone	102
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.	Technology	103
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.	Politics	104
God is a verb, not a noun.	God	105
Love is metaphysical gravity.	Love	106
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.		107
Tension is the great integrity.	Great	108
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.	Politics	109
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.	Travel	110
Don't fight forces, use them.		111
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.	Architecture, Future	112
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.		113
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.		114
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.	Nature	115
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.		116
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.	Leadership	117
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.		118
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.		119
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.	Nature	120
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.	Art, Knowledge	121
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.	Brainy, Experience	122
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.		123
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 wage.		124
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.	Technology	125
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.	Home	126
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.		201
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.		202
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.		203
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.	Faith	204
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.		205
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.	Space	206
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.		207
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.		208
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.	Politics	209
Either war is obsolete, or men are.		210
Truth is a tendency.	Truth	211
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.		212
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.	Space	213
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.		214
War is the ultimate tool of politics.	Politics	215
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.		216
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.		217
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.		218
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.		219
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.		220
Man knows so much and does so little.	Intelligence	221
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.		222
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.		223

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