"I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes……" — R. Buckminster Fuller
"I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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220 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
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