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
war selfishness unnecessary
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
mean thinking piano
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.
mistake spectacular
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
hippie thinking people
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
war men leader
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
dark thinking persistence
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
Sharing is having more.
children years newborn-child
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
mistake errors assumption
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
dark thinking age
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
positivity ninety-nine invisible
Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
being-true
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
support-you age attention
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
peace acting venture
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.