Full stops are really quite useful actually

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:01:46 +0100

Flemming quotes Buckminster Fuller's 152-word statement of his life's intent. I challenge anyone to read and comprehend the whole thing in one go! Nevertheless this bit jumped out at me:

...I seek through Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform men being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...

It's close to a defintion of my own, less grand, intent to build tools that change the environment in meaningful ways that enable us to achieve, with less effort, more than we thought possible.

Curiouser and Curiouser! on meaning

Full stops are really quite useful actually