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
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.
outlaw humans areas
All human advances occur in the outlaw area.
rewards problem difficult
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
hate garden roots
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
can-do
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
children genius born
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
nouns earth verbs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
learning self world
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
thinking trying special
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
inspirational mistake errors
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.