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
thinking world overcoming
My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.
spirit life-is
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
patterns events fundamentals
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
thinking needs world
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
fishing intuition hook
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
reliability fundamentals way
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
thinking keys important
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
design graphic-design graphic
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
fashion together psychological
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.
effectiveness strive greater
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
school thinking people
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living
inspirational energy wealth
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
thinking effectiveness mysterious
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
sports children mistake
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.