[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 Copy Share Image
We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles. — Paul Laffoley 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
[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
I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image