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
littles realizing knows
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
war discord turns
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
children enormous competence
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
military political humanity
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
book important earth
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
choices oblivion utopia
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.
integrity tension spectacular
Tension is the great integrity.
jobs home people
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
sky clouds people
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
opportunity dictator invention
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
humanity overlapping universe
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
responsibility thinking government
I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
children years genius
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
parent faithful unhappy
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.