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
nature book reading
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
successful men humanity
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
fate men leader
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
pain educational organization
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
design tools politics
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
two making-money make-sense
You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.
ninety-nine humanity politics
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
slavery fancy facts
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
order democracy world
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
inspirational unique humanity
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
new-york average hands
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
two unity chaos
Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
few-words matter spectacular
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
mean language behavior
Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts.