People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
