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
design graphic-design graphic
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
fashion together psychological
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.
effectiveness strive greater
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
school thinking people
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living
inspirational energy wealth
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
thinking effectiveness mysterious
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
sports children mistake
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
trying principles copies
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
unique men humanity
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
dog tails politician
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
self humanity world
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
men medicine doctors
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
humanity tasks social-behavior
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
instruments mechanism
I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.