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> [On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/on-the-other-hand-the-way-in-which-that-car-fit-into-this-whole-very/)

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> [I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-set-my-life-since-then-attempting-to-figure-out-how-to-do-that/)

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> [Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/once-you-start-backing-into-all-of-that-then-you-see-this-incredibly/)

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## More by Jonathon Keats

> [ \[Buckminster\] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/buckminster-fuller-was-an-independent-operator-coming-up-with-these/)

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> [ We clearly recognize the need for something that is what \[Buckminster Fuller\] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/we-clearly-recognize-the-need-for-something-that-is-what-buckminster/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-think-that-i-feel-that-i-have-no-choice-but-to-operate-under-the/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [ \[Buckminster\] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/buckminster-fuller-said-that-everything-at-the-time-was-basically-a/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-don-t-think-that-i-am-hopeful-because-i-have-some-data-that-you-don/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-would-argue-that-search-has-made-the-world-a-better-place-it-has/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/architects-in-urban-planning-are-talking-about-this-but-they-re-not/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [ I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as \[Buckminster Fuller\] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-would-certainly-never-want-to-inflict-anything-on-the-world-exactly/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be honest, I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/you-have-those-who-have-been-living-and-breathing-buckminster-fuller/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [ There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as \[Buckminster Fuller\] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/there-were-other-auto-manufacturers-that-were-confabulating-as-much/)

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> [On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/on-the-other-hand-the-way-in-which-that-car-fit-into-this-whole-very/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [I do not think that technology is our salvation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-do-not-think-that-technology-is-our-salvation/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [ Where Google and \[Buckminster\] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/where-google-and-buckminster-fuller-overlap-are-in-the-potential-for/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public discourse in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-set-my-life-since-then-attempting-to-figure-out-how-to-do-that/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

> [I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/i-was-totally-taken-in-and-totally-taken-by-that-myth-starting-in/)

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