Jonathon Keats

[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the…

— Jonathon Keats

We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that…

— Jonathon Keats

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it…

— Jonathon Keats

I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with…

— Jonathon Keats

I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely…

— Jonathon Keats

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that…

— Jonathon Keats

I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic…

— Jonathon Keats

You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be…

— Jonathon Keats

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or…

— Jonathon Keats

On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the…

— Jonathon Keats

I do not think that technology is our salvation.

— Jonathon Keats

Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something…

— Jonathon Keats

I set my life since then attempting to figure out how to do that, basically how to have a sort of public…

— Jonathon Keats

I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting…

— Jonathon Keats

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different…

— Jonathon Keats

Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to…

— Jonathon Keats

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

— Jonathon Keats

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

— Jonathon Keats

[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air…

— Jonathon Keats

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

— Jonathon Keats

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

— Jonathon Keats

The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might…

— Jonathon Keats

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

— Jonathon Keats