105 quotes
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
God, to me, it seems
is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper.
No More Secondhand God (1963)
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
Critical Path (1981)
Designer is defined as an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination.
Critical Path (1981)
Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
Grunch of Giants (1983)
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
Cosmography (1992)
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
Cosmography (1992)
Max Planck says, "The opposition never yields; they just die off." It's just a question of time. They are dying off.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
World Design Science Decade 1965-1975 Phase I (1965)
World Game finds that 60 percent of all the jobs in the U.S.A. are not producing any real wealth—i.e., real life support. They are in fear - underwriting industries or are checking-on-other-checkers, etc.
Critical Path (1981)
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
Cosmography (1992)
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
Critical Path (1981)
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
Critical Path (1981)
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now.
Critical Path (1981)
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)