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
years air water
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
powerful historical ambitious
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
vices virtue spectacular
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
stupid intelligent alternatives
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
jobs done good-job
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
dark thinking age
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
mistake decision humanity
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
creativity outcomes unexpected
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
moving water wave
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
creativity apology thinking
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
learning self world
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
patterns principles immortality
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
order survival done
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
darkness reign obsolete
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.