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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all… — 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
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
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
[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's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats 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 fact that… — 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 to look… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can… — 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 had that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that… — 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 [Buckminster] Fuller… — Jonathon Keats 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 worldview that… — 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 honest, I'm… — Jonathon Keats 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 that aspect… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of… — 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 that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/975/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_where-google-and-buckminster-fuller-over_672435.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/quotes/img-quotes/5c0/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-it-was-impossible-not-to-come-up_1655031.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/quotes/img-quotes/d9d/jonathon-keats-10822_aspect_there-were-other-auto-manufacturers-that_440815.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/quotes/img-quotes/5b5/jonathon-keats-10822_action_i-would-say-that-what-the-value-of-talki_2352126.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/quotes/img-quotes/704/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-that-buckminster-fuller-certainl_1675141.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/quotes/img-quotes/d11/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-would-certainly-never-want-to-inflict_340658.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/quotes/img-quotes/334/jonathon-keats-10822_being-true_we-re-back-around-to-buckminster-fuller_1816940.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/quotes/img-quotes/0b3/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_i-think-that-surprisingly-few-people-rig_1416599.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/quotes/img-quotes/92f/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_we-clearly-recognize-the-need-for-someth_100464.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/quotes/img-quotes/ee0/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-was-an-independent-op_35124.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/quotes/img-quotes/121/jonathon-keats-10822_believe_writing-a-book-about-buckminster-fuller_2453345.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/quotes/img-quotes/fb3/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_first-of-all-buckminster-fuller-s-identi_2190146.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f5/jonathon-keats-10822_air_buckminster-fuller-started-talking-about_1066738.jpg)
![“On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d8/jonathon-keats-10822_attempting_on-the-other-hand-the-way-in-which-that_562873.jpg)
![“Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all that was necessary. I don't really care. But what I do care about is what was happening within the realm of automobiles at the time that [Buckminster Fuller] invented his Dymaxion car because that…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b3/jonathon-keats-10822_able_just-enough-of-that-to-be-able-to-give-t_2011551.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/quotes/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/quotes/img-quotes/5e2/jonathon-keats-10822_addresses_once-you-start-backing-into-all-of-that_2409983.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/quotes/img-quotes/77c/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-was-totally-taken-in-and-totally-taken_810745.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/quotes/img-quotes/4f9/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_to-me-the-reason-to-write-about-buckmins_1132147.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/quotes/img-quotes/5bb/jonathon-keats-10822_automobile_buckminster-fuller-said-that-everything_134972.jpg)
![“[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/864/jonathon-keats-10822_bad-weather_buckminster-fuller-s-idea-of-progress-is_1517956.jpg)
![“All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today.” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85b/jonathon-keats-10822_able_all-sorts-of-problems-and-the-interconne_1584952.jpg)
![“I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/452/jonathon-keats-10822_book_i-think-that-in-the-first-place-why-we-c_1362542.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/quotes/img-quotes/00f/jonathon-keats-10822_becoming_i-became-really-absorbed-but-again-i-was_2621527.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/quotes/img-quotes/dde/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-didn-t-grow-up-with-buckminster-fuller_3035794.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/quotes/img-quotes/310/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_the-interesting-thing-writing-about-buck_3168700.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/quotes/img-quotes/2f1/jonathon-keats-10822_buckminster-fuller_what-i-think-is-really-interesting-is-to_3009027.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/quotes/img-quotes/808/jonathon-keats-10822_able_just-getting-totally-absorbed-in-that-an_3021421.jpg)
![“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to…” quote by Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aaf/jonathon-keats-10822_believe_my-work-is-very-eclectic-i-write-books-t_3218759.jpg)
