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“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting high technology from weaponry to livingry.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Whether it is to be utopia or oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“What is my job on the planet? What is it that needs doing, that I know something about, that probably won’t happen unless I take responsibility for it?”
― Buckminster Fuller

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
― 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 same time, the annual growth rate of world population has been steadily decelerating from its peak of 2.04 % in the late sixties to 1.3 % in 1999, and is predicted to continue dropping to less than 0.5 % by the year 2050.”
― Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

“The fact then that the great interbehaviors, in fact all great generalized principles discovered by science, are relationships existing between, that are not of the parts themselves.”
― Buckminster Fuller, Everything I Know - Buckminster Fuller

“You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“For as Bucky used to exclaim, “when people know what it is all about they don’t need someone else to tell them what to do.”
― Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

“He described this process as the discipline of being both “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive.”
― Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

“The only question, Bucky asked, is whether we will respond deliberately and constructively, or be reactive by default.”
― Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

“You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.”
― Buckminster Fuller