R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth12 July 1895
CountryUnited States of America
R. Buckminster Fuller quotes about
integrity fate humanity
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
impossible happens
The impossible happens.
world
How do we make the world work?
racism extinction pollution
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
order years people
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
children genius
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
humanity earth doe
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
minimum universe
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
fate men leader
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
pain educational organization
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
design tools politics
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
integrity mean support
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
beautiful sleep typewriters
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
clothes embroidery suits
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.