The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”… — Tony Seba Copy Share Image
There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like… — John Cage Copy Share Image
What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster]… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be.… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
![“[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/566/paul-laffoley-7077_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-would-pretend-to-be-d_2722726.jpg)
![“The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b8d/paul-laffoley-7077_angle_the-tetrahedron-was-buckminster-fuller-s_2068102.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ad6/paul-laffoley-7077_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-was-quite-a-newtonian_1718154.jpg)
![“To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f9/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_to-me-the-reason-to-write-about-buckmins_1132147.jpg)
![“We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look at the ways in which world changing today totally misses everything that was valuable.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92f/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_we-clearly-recognize-the-need-for-someth_100464.jpg)
![“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/975/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_where-google-and-buckminster-fuller-over_672435.jpg)
![“I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has no interest in becoming an insider, let alone in what that insider perspective on [Buckminster Fuller] has come to be and come to represent.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00f/jonathon-keats-10822_becoming_i-became-really-absorbed-but-again-i-was_2621527.jpg)
![“I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c0/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-it-was-impossible-not-to-come-up_1655031.jpg)
![“The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/310/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_the-interesting-thing-writing-about-buck_3168700.jpg)
![“There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d9d/jonathon-keats-10822_aspect_there-were-other-auto-manufacturers-that_440815.jpg)
![“I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome and he coined the term "spaceship earth" and that's pretty much the extent of what people who even have heard of him know. And I'm struck by how…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0b3/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-that-surprisingly-few-people-rig_1416599.jpg)
![“I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/439/paul-laffoley-7077_because-i-can_i-said-well-why-do-you-believe-in-the-kl_2094570.jpg)
![“I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at a ski resort one summer. He died in 1983. Only in 1999 or so, 2000, when I was working as an editor at San Francisco Magazine, did I really come back around to that name because Stanford…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dde/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-didn-t-grow-up-with-buckminster-fuller_3035794.jpg)
![“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee0/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-was-an-independent-op_35124.jpg)
![“Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/560/jonathon-keats-10822_architect_architects-in-urban-planning-are-talking_285452.jpg)
![“Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e2/jonathon-keats-10822_addresses_once-you-start-backing-into-all-of-that_2409983.jpg)
![“Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made up, I realized that nevertheless, it really was crucial, crucial for how he understood himself, I believe, and certainly crucial for how anyone else ever engaged…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/808/jonathon-keats-10822_able_just-getting-totally-absorbed-in-that-an_3021421.jpg)
![“First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb3/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_first-of-all-buckminster-fuller-s-identi_2190146.jpg)
![“I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b5/jonathon-keats-10822_action_i-would-say-that-what-the-value-of-talki_2352126.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/75c/paul-laffoley-7077_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-could-do-four-five-ho_543300.jpg)
![“What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f1/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_what-i-think-is-really-interesting-is-to_3009027.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0f2/paul-laffoley-7077_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-always-liked-to-say-t_1604644.jpg)
![“I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/704/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-that-buckminster-fuller-certainl_1675141.jpg)
![“I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bd4/paul-laffoley-7077_age_i-started-modeling-myself-on-buckminster_684133.jpg)
![“I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d11/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-would-certainly-never-want-to-inflict_340658.jpg)
![“I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read [Buckminster Fuller] self-representation, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/77c/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-was-totally-taken-in-and-totally-taken_810745.jpg)
![“We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/334/jonathon-keats-10822_being-true_we-re-back-around-to-buckminster-fuller_1816940.jpg)
![“[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5bb/jonathon-keats-10822_automobile_buckminster-fuller-said-that-everything_134972.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/faa/paul-laffoley-7077_able_buckminster-fuller-was-quite-willing-to_1724572.jpg)
![“Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much I can leave out is relatively easy as it is because the true believers already know everything. They know a lot of things that are not true and they know a lot of…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/121/jonathon-keats-10822_believe_writing-a-book-about-buckminster-fuller_2453345.jpg)