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

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) American architect, engineer
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) American architect, engineer
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) American architect, engineer
(Attributed)

Quoted in L. Steven Sieden, A Fuller View (2012).
 
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How DO we know that the people we meet are not computers programmed to simulate people?

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) American architect, engineer
I Seem To Be a Verb (1970)
 
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Don’t fight forces, use them.

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) American architect, engineer
Shelter Magazine (Nov 1932)

The motto of Shelter magazine, when renamed and repurposed by Fuller in 1932 from Philadelphia's old T-Square Club Journal.
 
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