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
vices virtue spectacular
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
strength leadership guitar
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
mistake decision humanity
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
errors progressive truth-is
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
self people rude
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
sports mistake reason
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
integrity heart self
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
wisdom country jobs
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
degrees
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
order survival done
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
real ideas energy
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
humanity looks look-up
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
race long hungry
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
lying three-things and-love
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.