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Quotes from Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Better a crook you know than one you don't.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Our power is in our ability to decide.
~ Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
~ Buckminster Fuller
You can't learn less.
~ Buckminster Fuller
The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended
~ Buckminster Fuller
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
~ Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.
~ Buckminster Fuller
I haven't learned How or why Universe contrived to implode And intellectually code The myriadly unique Chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA, Quadripartite moleculed, Binary paired, Helically extended And unzippingly dichotomied Regenerative symphonic jazz, as A one and two, Three and four Me---You, Thee---They And more Thine and mine, Sweet citizen, THYMINE-CYTOSINE GUANINE-ADENINE
~ Buckminster Fuller
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.
~ Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Every child is born a genius.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent
~ Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~ Buckminster Fuller
The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
~ 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
I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces; use them.
~ Buckminster Fuller
A house is a machine for living.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
~ Buckminster Fuller