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I Am Enthusiastic Over Humanity’s Extraordinary And Sometimes Very Timely Ingenuity. If You Are In A Shipwreck And All The Boats Are Gone, A Piano Top Buoyant Enough To Keep You Afloat That Comes Along Makes A Fortuitous Life Preserver. But This Is Not To Say That The Best Way To Design A Life Preserver Is In The Form Of A Piano Top. I Think That We Are Clinging To A Great Many Piano Tops In Accepting Yesterday’s Fortuitous Contrivings As Constituting The Only Means For Solving A Given Problem.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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I Am Enthusiastic Over Humanity’s Extraordinary And Sometimes Very Timely Ingenuity. If You Are In A Shipwreck And All The Boats Are Gone, A Piano Top Buoyant Enough To Keep You Afloat That Comes Along Makes A Fortuitous Life Preserver. But This Is Not To Say That The Best Way To Design A Life Preserver Is In The Form Of A Piano Top. I Think That We Are Clinging To A Great Many Piano Tops In Accepting Yesterday’s Fortuitous Contrivings As Constituting The Only Means For Solving A Given Problem.

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When I'm Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty. I Think Only How To Solve The Problem.

There Is An Effective Strategy Open To Architects. Whereas Doctors Deal With The Interior Organisms Of Man, Architects Deal With The Exterior Organisms Of Man. Architects Might Join With One Another To Carry On Their Work In Laboratories As Do Doctors In Anticipatory Medicine.

War Is Obsolete. We Are Not Here To Fight Something Or Tear Something Down; We Are Here To Be The Example Of What Is Possible. Any Sane Individual Will Tell You That Violence Is ... Not The Way.

Faith Is Much Better Than Belief. Belief Is When Someone Else Does The Thinking.

God, To Me, It Seems, Is A Verb Not A Noun, Proper Or Improper.

In Order For A World-around Democracy To Prosper, World Society Must Learn How To Prosper.

American Labor Will Realize That Its Function Is Not To Increase Jobs, But To Multiply The Wealth And To Expand The Numbers Benefited By The Wealth At The Swiftest Possible Rate.

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