[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
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
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
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
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
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
[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties… — Paul Laffoley 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
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
![“[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)
![“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)
![“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/quotes/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/quotes/img-quotes/dde/jonathon-keats-10822_archives_i-didn-t-grow-up-with-buckminster-fuller_3035794.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)
![“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)
![“[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night, never studied anything, never took a note, didn't care about anything and just had a blast. So they said, "We gotta let you go. You get zeros all the time."…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d37/paul-laffoley-7077_blast_buckminster-fuller-never-got-past-his-fr_3094366.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)
![“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)
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