Buckminster fuller Quote by Paul Laffoley Download Open image “[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.” — Paul Laffoley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buckminster fuller Deaf Right time Time
The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
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Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.” — Jarod Kintz 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
[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be honest, I'm… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a… — Robert Kiyosaki 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 things like,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image