Buckminster fuller Quotes by 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

[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

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

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

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

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

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[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people…

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties…

— Paul Laffoley