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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. --- John Dewey ------------------------------------------------------------ If the 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? --- R. Buckminster Fuller ------------------------------------------------------------ I only learn what to do when I have failures. --- R. Buckminster Fuller ------------------------------------------------------------ But ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure. --- William McDonough ------------------------------------------------------------ Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively. --- R. Buckminster Fuller ------------------------------------------------------------ Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. --- Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------------------------ Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. --- R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963 ------------------------------------------------------------ The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and income. --- John Maynard Keynes ------------------------------------------------------------ The words "artificial" and "failure" are meaningless, for what they aver is experimentally "nonexistent." If Nature permits a formulation it is natural. If Nature's laws of behavior do not permit the formulation, the latter does not occur. Whatever can be done or occurs is natural, no matter how grotesque, bor ing, unfamiliar, or unprecedented. --- R. Buckminster Fuller, "How Little I Know" Saturday Review 12 November 1966