Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
