My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller in Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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