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
mother people genius
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
genius human-nature born
Everyone is born a genius.
jobs numbers politics
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
earth spaceships passengers
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
book reading humanity
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
beauty creativity thinking
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
people environment ifs
If you change the environment, you change the people.
ignorance energy crisis
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
opposites impossible
The opposite of nature is impossible.
technology genius born
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
metaphor prisoner
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...
needs done things-to-do
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
thinking plus knows
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
horse jumping light
There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.