[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.

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

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.

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.

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

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.