Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation… — 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
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive. — 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
