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
enthusiasm enthusiastic
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
verbs nouns
God is a verb, not a noun.
selfish moving class
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
integrity special may
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous--tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
way problem wells
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
parent television thirds
Television is the third parent.
communication mean metaphysical
That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
nouns statistics verbs
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
men technology waiting
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
art children knowledge
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
stress home circles
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
management sometimes blind
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
crush children order
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
inspirational space environmental
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.