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34 quotes
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”
"There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well."
on Happiness
"The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it."
on Life
"Dare to be naive."
on Courage
"God is a verb, not a noun."
on Faith
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
on Innovation
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
on Nature
"Man knows so much and does so little."
on Wisdom
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
"If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?"
on Philosophy
"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked"
on Humor
"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."
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
on Technology
"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."
"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."
"Truth is a tendency."
on Truth
"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
"The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life."
"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."
