When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Quote by R Buckminster Fuller

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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional...

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional...

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly...

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly...

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for...

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the...

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

Tension is the great integrity.

Tension is the great integrity.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no...

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no...

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed...

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed...

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse...

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse...

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his...

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his...

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while...

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while...

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs...

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs...

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought...

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought...

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.