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
sad men littles
Man knows so much and does so little.
degrees
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
break-through today facts
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
mistake spectacular
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
hippie thinking people
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
nouns earth verbs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
can-do
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
children genius born
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
communication humanity understanding
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
rewards problem difficult
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
metaphor prisoner
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...
ignorance energy crisis
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
inspirational-life trying consistent
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
humanity transformation difficult
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.