Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Never show unfinished work.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

I look for what needs to be done

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

How do we make the world work?

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."