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
two office half
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
humans affected universe
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
creativity outcomes unexpected
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
communication humanity understanding
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
education lost-love divorce
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
mistake ignorance greed
Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.
thinking giving people
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
beauty beautiful niece
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
reality perception facts
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
life-lesson experience genius
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
thinking planets creatures
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
education mistake school
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
integrity interesting decision
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
darkness reign obsolete
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.