American - Inventor | July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
NatureButterflyYouNothingGoing
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
IntegrityEverythingSuccessful
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
PoliticsValuePollutionNothing
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
ClothesDeadExpensiveSuitMonument
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
MechanicArtistSynthesisDesigner
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
DevilSwordPlayWillToysWho
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
TechnologyHumanityWrongRight
Tension is the great integrity.
IntegrityGreatTension
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.
GreatSceneryPowerfulBecomeBehind
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
ProcessGeniusBornLivingEveryone
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