A Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Quote Topics
Quote Author
Related Quotes
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. And you can't wait until something nasty and horrible happens to then claim it's wrong, while you've catered the support of certain groups for votes or other reasons.
In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.
Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.
There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.
When you are thinking about going away for a long duration mission, it has to be part of your mindset that you're leaving your family, but it's for the right reasons, for good reasons, and hopefully helping humanity.
Related Authors
Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
Scottish
Inventor
Charles Kettering Quotes
American
Inventor
David Baszucki Quotes
American
Inventor
Dean Kamen Quotes
American
Inventor
Edwin Land Quotes
American
Inventor
Homaro Cantu Quotes
American
Inventor
Jacque Fresco Quotes
American
Inventor
Joy Mangano Quotes
American
Inventor
Ken Hakuta Quotes
South Korean
Inventor
Mike Lindell Quotes
American
Inventor
Nikola Tesla Quotes
American
Inventor
Ray Kurzweil Quotes
American
Inventor
Simone Giertz Quotes
Swedish
Inventor
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
American
Inventor
Tim Berners-Lee Quotes
English
Inventor
Tony Fadell Quotes
American
Inventor