Buckminster Fuller Quotes
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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.
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.
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.
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.
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
