R. Buckminster Fuller
(1895-1983)

American Architcect, Inventor, Futurist
1983 Presidential Medal of Freedom

birthdate: July 12
birthplace:
Milton, Massachusetts

QUOTES

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Don't fight forces, use them.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

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.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy."

Dare to be naive.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model which makes the existing model obsolete.

 

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