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
slavery fancy facts
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
order democracy world
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
inspirational unique humanity
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
new-york average hands
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
two unity chaos
Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
few-words matter spectacular
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
beautiful discovery overwhelmed
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
thinking world overcoming
My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.
spirit life-is
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
patterns events fundamentals
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
thinking needs world
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
fishing intuition hook
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
reliability fundamentals way
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
thinking keys important
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.