Frases de Richard Buckminster Fuller

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“La humanidad está desarrollando la tecnología correcta por las razones equivocadas.”

“No intentes cambiar un sistema, construye uno nuevo que haga que el anterior se vuelva obsoleto.”

“Si el éxito o el fracaso de la vida en este planeta dependiese de quién quieres ser tú, y de qué es lo que quieres hacer, ¿quién querrías ser? ¿Qué querrías hacer?”

“No vamos a ser capaces de pilotar nuestra Nave Espacial Tierra durante mucho tiempo más, a no ser que entendamos que es una única nave, y que nuestro destino es común. Tenemos que ser todos, o no seremos ninguno.”

“Cada vez que el hombre realiza un experimento, aprende más. Es imposible que aprenda menos.”

“Diseñar es hacer lo máximo con lo mínimo.”

“La contaminación no es otra cosa que los recursos que estamos desperdiciando. Permitimos que se dispersen porque ignoramos su valor.”

“No luches contra las fuerzas; úsalas.”

“Debemos acabar con esta noción absolutamente engañosa de que todos tienen que ganarse la vida.”

“La política es absolutamente inútil. Por eso todo salió mal.”

“Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.”

“It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. The essence of livingry is human-life advantaging and environment controlling. With the highest aeronautical and engineering facilities of the world redirected from weaponry to livingry production, all humanity would have the option of becoming enduringly successful.”

“War is obsolete. It could never have been done before. Only ten years ago… technology reached the point where it could be done. Since then the invisible technological-capability revolution has made it ever easier so to do.”

“Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize… that 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 and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.”

“Selected quotes from the chapter on Synergy onwards…”

“All previous revolutions have been political—in them the have-not majority has attempted revengefully to pull down the economically advantaged minority. If realized, this historically greatest design revolution will joyously elevate all humanity to unprecedented heights.”

“Society assumes that specialization is natural, inevitable, and desirable. Yet in observing a little child, we find it is interested in everything and spontaenously apprehends, comprehends, and co-ordinates an ever-expanding inventory of experiences. … Nothing seems to be more prominent about human life than its wanting to understand all and put everything together.”

“We have not been seeing our Spaceship Earth as an integrally-designed machine which to be persistently successful must be comprehended and serviced in total.”

“There is so much stupid information, misinformation around. You can’t really get anywhere until you get out from under all that.”

“The politicians still say that it’s you or me, and that’s why they go for the gun.”

“Up to now, the world of politics doesn’t know that. That’s why all nations are dependent on armaments, why we have the arms race.”

“But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That’s why the idea of scarcity is all wrong.”

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

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

“Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder.”

“Nature is entirely synergetic and because your problems of representing a society ignorant of such fundamentals are greatly increased you need to pay great attention to learning how to comprehend synergy and thereafter how to educate all of humanity in the shortest time how to comprehend and usefully cope with omni-synergetic universe”

“I have to ask... are you familiar with the word “synergy?””

“I find all of our world society is operating exclusively in parts. We know this because the word synergy is unknown popularly and it is the only word that means “behavior of wholes unpredicted by behavior of their parts.””

“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 and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival... It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.”

“Nature never "fails."”