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

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

First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in the world today than in his own lifetime from sustainability in terms of the environment to income inequality.

I work on everything all at once, which is maybe the worst way to go about it. But I think that actually it works really well in terms of the serendipitous connections between all of these many different projects and these many different realms.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

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

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