Buckminster fuller Quotes

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

— Chris Sacca

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

— Paul Laffoley

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”

— Cedric Price

Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something…

— Jonathon Keats

We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting…

— Jonathon Keats

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done…

— Jonathon Keats

You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be…

— Jonathon Keats

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”…

— Tony Seba

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or…

— Jonathon Keats

[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

“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci…

— Einar Thorsteinn

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot…

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the…

— Jonathon Keats

[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

[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air…

— Jonathon Keats

On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the…

— Jonathon Keats

I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius…

— Paul Laffoley

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

I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that…

— Jonathon Keats

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once,…

— Paul Laffoley

I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic…

— Jonathon Keats

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

I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting…

— Jonathon Keats

[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as…

— Jonathon Keats

We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did…

— Paul Laffoley

All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might…

— Jonathon Keats

[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.

— Paul Laffoley

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

— Paul Laffoley

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

— Jonathon Keats

I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has…

— Jonathon Keats

The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a…

— Jonathon Keats

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

I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has…

— Jonathon Keats

“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

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

Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all…

— Marianne Williamson