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

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

– Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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Dare to be naive.

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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

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God is a verb.

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God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

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« Non cambierai mai le cose combattendo la realtà esistente. Costruisci un modello nuovo che renda quello attuale obsoleto »

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