Jonathon Keats

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one…

— Jonathon Keats

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the…

— Jonathon Keats

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

— Jonathon Keats

[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as…

— Jonathon Keats

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

— Jonathon Keats

It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try…

— Jonathon Keats

At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really…

— Jonathon Keats

All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly…

— Jonathon Keats

What we need to do is we need to say, how can - how can we operate independently in terms of putting…

— Jonathon Keats

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that…

— Jonathon Keats

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray…

— Jonathon Keats

We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be.…

— Jonathon Keats

Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe…

— Jonathon Keats

I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially…

— Jonathon Keats

Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all…

— Jonathon Keats

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with…

— Jonathon Keats

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what…

— Jonathon Keats

First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in…

— Jonathon Keats

I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms,…

— Jonathon Keats

I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our…

— Jonathon Keats

I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has…

— Jonathon Keats

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with…

— Jonathon Keats