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
order democracy world
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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.
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.
self humanity world
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
world
How do we make the world work?
numbers world industry
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
political design world
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
learning self world
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
successful humanity world
Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?
motivation inspiration world
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.
humanity vision world
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
philosophy talking world
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
american-inventor proper purpose verb
Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
integrity differences humanity
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.