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
mean language behavior
Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts.
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.
principles mysterious behavior
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles
mean behavior synergy
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
integrity differences humanity
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
peace war fighting
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way...
christian god noun proper
God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.
american-inventor proper purpose verb
Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
integrity fate humanity
On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate
brain special cases
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.
money making-money make-sense
You either make sense or you make money.
inexplicable obvious mystical
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
integrity independent patterns
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
technology men computer
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.